Law professor and former United States Attorney General Edward H. Levi noted that the “basic pattern of legal reasoning is reasoning by example”—that is, reasoning by comparing outcomes in cases resolving similar legal questions. Supreme Court case regarding procedural efforts taken by a debt collection company to avoid errors, Justice Sotomayor cautioned that “legal reasoning is not a mechanical or strictly linear process”.
- Yet classification is a matter of form rather than substance since similar rules often prevail.
- Social security law refers to the rights people have to social insurance, such as jobseekers’ allowances or housing benefits.
- Their ‘abstraction principle’