This thesis deals with the experimental application of network
analysis and related methods to the judicial decisions of the
Constitutional, Supreme and Supreme Administrative Courts.
These methods are used for two methodologically separate
purposes - to describe the citation network of the decisions of
these courts and to improve the retrieval of court decisions.
Three specific methods are selected for the retrieval of court
decisions, using which the decisions are processed and whose
results are then presented to an expert group of lawyers for
evaluation. On the basis of the evaluation, their suitability
for practical use in case law searches is assessed.