Gao Xingge
As a basic external manifestation of judicial justice in judicial practice, ‘same cases with same judgements’ and ‘similar cases with same judgements’ are the psychological expectations of human society for the pursuit of fairness and justice. Although the similar case retrieval system was endowed with this ‘sacred mission’ at the beginning of the system’s establishment, no matter from the logical nature of the system’s operation and the limitations of the formation basis of similar cases, or whether it has a mandatory application to judges even in terms of the limited binding force of similar cases on judges’ judgements under the mandatory search obligation, it should be rationally recognized that the search mechanism for similar cases is limited in realizing the function of ‘same cases with same judgements’. The retrieval mechanism for similar cases can realize the interpretation function and the coordination function of the rule of law under the background of current regional development differences in China through differentiated functional positioning.
内容提要 “同案同判”“类案同判”作为司法正义在司法实践中一种朴素而又基本的外在表现形式，是人类社会对公平正义追求的心理期待。虽然类案检索制度在制度设置之初便被赋予了这一“神圣使命”，但是无论从其制度运行逻辑本质及类案形成基础的局限性上，还是其对法官是否具有强制性适用效力，以及即使在强制性检索义务下类案对法官裁判约束力的有限性上，应当理性认识到类案检索机制在实现“同案同判”功能上的有限性。同时，类案检索机制可通过差异化的功能定位实现其释法功能以及在我国当前区域发展差异化背景下的法治协调功能。