AppealCase: A Dataset and Benchmark for Civil Case Appeal Scenarios

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Huang, Yuting, Guo, Meitong, Wu, Yiquan, Li, Ang, Liu, Xiaozhong, Yin, Keting, Sun, Changlong, Wu, Fei, Kuang, Kun
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866916756254097408
author Huang, Yuting
Guo, Meitong
Wu, Yiquan
Li, Ang
Liu, Xiaozhong
Yin, Keting
Sun, Changlong
Wu, Fei
Kuang, Kun
author_facet Huang, Yuting
Guo, Meitong
Wu, Yiquan
Li, Ang
Liu, Xiaozhong
Yin, Keting
Sun, Changlong
Wu, Fei
Kuang, Kun
contents Recent advances in LegalAI have primarily focused on individual case judgment analysis, often overlooking the critical appellate process within the judicial system. Appeals serve as a core mechanism for error correction and ensuring fair trials, making them highly significant both in practice and in research. To address this gap, we present the AppealCase dataset, consisting of 10,000 pairs of real-world, matched first-instance and second-instance documents across 91 categories of civil cases. The dataset also includes detailed annotations along five dimensions central to appellate review: judgment reversals, reversal reasons, cited legal provisions, claim-level decisions, and whether there is new information in the second instance. Based on these annotations, we propose five novel LegalAI tasks and conduct a comprehensive evaluation across 20 mainstream models. Experimental results reveal that all current models achieve less than 50% F1 scores on the judgment reversal prediction task, highlighting the complexity and challenge of the appeal scenario. We hope that the AppealCase dataset will spur further research in LegalAI for appellate case analysis and contribute to improving consistency in judicial decision-making.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2505_16514
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle AppealCase: A Dataset and Benchmark for Civil Case Appeal Scenarios
Huang, Yuting
Guo, Meitong
Wu, Yiquan
Li, Ang
Liu, Xiaozhong
Yin, Keting
Sun, Changlong
Wu, Fei
Kuang, Kun
Computation and Language
Recent advances in LegalAI have primarily focused on individual case judgment analysis, often overlooking the critical appellate process within the judicial system. Appeals serve as a core mechanism for error correction and ensuring fair trials, making them highly significant both in practice and in research. To address this gap, we present the AppealCase dataset, consisting of 10,000 pairs of real-world, matched first-instance and second-instance documents across 91 categories of civil cases. The dataset also includes detailed annotations along five dimensions central to appellate review: judgment reversals, reversal reasons, cited legal provisions, claim-level decisions, and whether there is new information in the second instance. Based on these annotations, we propose five novel LegalAI tasks and conduct a comprehensive evaluation across 20 mainstream models. Experimental results reveal that all current models achieve less than 50% F1 scores on the judgment reversal prediction task, highlighting the complexity and challenge of the appeal scenario. We hope that the AppealCase dataset will spur further research in LegalAI for appellate case analysis and contribute to improving consistency in judicial decision-making.
title AppealCase: A Dataset and Benchmark for Civil Case Appeal Scenarios
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16514