This is not only nearly impossible to define in the general case
And this is why there are courts who decide how law applies in particular cases. This is how case law works. What the law means gets more meaning as precedents accumulate over time.
That law is kind of an abstract algorithm that automatically applies to every case based on some general parameters is a misconception that I have seen quite a lot around here. Maybe the habit to think in abstract patterns doesn't really combine well with messy real-world phenomena like case law?
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And this is why there are courts who decide how law applies in particular cases. This is how case law works. What the law means gets more meaning as precedents accumulate over time.
That law is kind of an abstract algorithm that automatically applies to every case based on some general parameters is a misconception that I have seen quite a lot around here. Maybe the habit to think in abstract patterns doesn't really combine well with messy real-world phenomena like case law?
Related: "Trial by Machine" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2743800