Citation-Based Summarization of Landmark Judgments

TL;DR

This paper introduces a citation-based extractive summarization method for landmark judgments, leveraging references in citing judgments to generate concise summaries, with promising results on Indian court datasets.

Contribution

It presents a novel citation-based approach for summarizing landmark judgments, focusing on leveraging contextual references in citing documents.

Findings

Promising summarization results on Indian court judgments

Effective use of citation context for extractive summarization

Potential for improving legal document summarization

Abstract

Landmark judgments are of prime importance in the Common Law System because of their exceptional jurisprudence and frequent references in other judgments. In this work, we leverage contextual references available in citing judgments to create an extractive summary of the target judgment. We evaluate the proposed algorithm on two datasets curated from the judgments of Indian Courts and find the results promising.