| Description: |
Important associations between case data should be defined and established to support prescreening cases and analysis. By defining the significant relationships between data, the system can present information in such a way that the conclusions drawn during analysis will be more accurate. For example, the system could display links to all cases that have a relationship with the current case so that case precedent analyses can be performed easily, without complex querying of the database. When the system associates like data the system identifies all other cases that have some data feature(s) that resembles the target case. These other license requests are potentially valuable in precedence analysis. For instance, if the target case has State Oil Company as the end user, and the system identifies all other cases that involve State Oil Company, there is a higher than random probability that the other cases have a bearing on the decision of the target case. For this reason, users can trace not only the decisions of related cases, but also the policies and reports that might have bearing. |