I do not by any means underestimate the difficulties of efficient procedures for similarity-comparisons between cases. But chances are that with computers in the law some ancient justice-related hopes might finally prevail in a more appropriate environment than available before. Though this is true, it might well be, that without adequate computing technology even the lawyer of good character might be lost within the complexity of modern legal work. Once this situation has been understood and the necessary means of assistance have been put to practice, the next question will be another one. And at all levels of society computer-type rationality is winning out.
Experts are an endangered species.
If we fail to put logic machines in their proper place, as aids to human beings with expert intuition, then we shall end up servants supplying data to our competent machines. Should calculative rationality triumph, no one will notice that something is missing, but now, while we still know what expert judgement is, let us use that expert judgement to preserve it. But that is another story that might have to be told in another moment. The form of the presentation has been kept.