Criminal Case Records
Updated 2026-08-16
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
Case records are compilations of real criminal cases with their facts, verdicts, and cited statutes, maintained so that later cases can be decided by reference to them. In the Chinese legal tradition they stood beside the written code rather than under it: the code set the rule, and the accumulated cases showed how the rule had actually been applied in concrete circumstances, which is where an abstract statute proves too thin to decide.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Compile the cases: record facts, verdicts, and the rules cited in each. - Use them as reference: let prior decisions inform the new ones. - Extract the rule: state the reusable principle once enough cases accumulate.
Anchor fast decisions
A statute is general and cannot anticipate every circumstance, so a body of accumulated cases fills the gap by showing what the rule meant when it was applied. Precedent carries the practical wisdom that the code omits, and the compilation makes that wisdom retrievable rather than oral.
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