A Quantitative Analysis of Slovak and Czech Supreme Courts Decisions

Abstract

The paper focuses on the comparison of the quantitative characteristics of the decisions of the Slovak and Czech supreme courts, using publicly available databases of their decisions, which can be analyzed from the point of view of quantitative linguistics and stylometry using the Czech application QuitaUp and further investigated mainly by means of the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test. The aim of the paper is to identify possible statistically significant differences in the representation of selected quantitative measures in the samples of decisions of both courts and to consider the possibilities of how to interpret these differences in terms of a closer comparative stylistic research aimed at Slovak and Czech legal texts.