Generating Legal Commentaries from Case Databases via Retrieval, Clustering, and Generation

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arXiv:2605.24534v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a fully automated pipeline that transforms large collections of court decisions into legal commentaries for statutes - without providing any handcrafted doctrinal framework. Using 4.555 decisions of the German Federal Court of Justice that cite sections 242, 280, 812 and 823 of the German Civil Code (BGB), we extract paragraph-level chunks, summarize their reasoning, and derive keywords, which are embedded and clustered. For each clu