alt Hacker News> a trial about some interpretation of a word in a law could be contributed back to the law as a bullet point that says, “this also applies if …”.
Is this not what happens in case law?
> a trial about some interpretation of a word in a law could be contributed back to the law as a bullet point that says, “this also applies if …”.
Is this not what happens in case law?
The law doesn’t literally get updated with a bullet point. Subsequently attorneys have to do ever greater searches to analyze all the precedents.