Brazilian Superior Court Decisions on Mall Liability for Third-Party Crimes

Five decisions from Brazil's Superior Court of Justice analyzed via qualitative extraction forms. The dataset includes complete analysis forms, a comparative matrix, and a variable dictionary. It was created by Renata Dantas de Oliveira Mercadante and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing judicial reasoning patterns based on the 'decisional grounds' mentioned in the description.
• Studying the classification of 'fortuitous events' in liability cases based on the described analysis framework.
• Comparing the application of legal precedent ('Súmula 130/STJ') across different cases.
• Examining variations in liability imputation based on the 'legal quality of the victim' as a described variable.
• Conducting a comparative case study on the delimitation of 'causal nexus' in civil liability.

Strengths

• Includes a complete set of analysis forms for five court decisions.
• Provides a comparative matrix and variable dictionary in open formats for transparency.
• Uses a defined empirical research methodology (Multiple Case Study and Decision Analysis Methodology).

Limitations

• The dataset is very small, consisting of only five analyzed court decisions.
• The data is contained in PDF and RTF files, which may require parsing for computational analysis.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting automated suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ), Brazil.

Collection Method

Qualitative extraction and analysis via forms as part of empirical legal research.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 18:40:31.

Geography

Brazil