美国的判例法文献,包括各级各类法院的判决汇编及摘要,以其纵向的详细、连贯及横向的全面、互联的整体系统设计,不仅成为司法活动记录、传播的栽体,也是以“遵循先例”为原则的司法制度运行的条件与保证,是公开、公平、公正这一法治理念的物化形式。 The case law documents of the United States, including the compilation and summary of judgments of all kinds of courts at various levels, have not only become the recording and dissemination carrier of judicial activities, but also have been based on the detailed, coherent and horizontal comprehensive and interconnected system designs. The conditions and guarantees for the operation of the judicial system that follows the precedent are the materialized forms of the concept of the rule of law that is open, fair and just.