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Predicting the Outcome of Appeal Decisions in Germany's Tax Law

Predicting the outcome or the probability of winning a legal case has always been highly attractive in legal sciences and practice. Hardly any attempt has been made to predict the outcome of German cases, although prior court decisions become more and more important in various legal domains of Germany’s jurisdiction, e.g., tax law.

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