The vast volume of documents available in legal databases demands effective information
retrieval approaches which take into consideration the intricacies of the legal domain.
Relevant document retrieval is the backbone of the legal domain. The concept of relevance
in the legal domain is very complex and multi-faceted. In this work, we propose a novel
approach of concept based similarity estimation among court judgments. We use a graph-
based method, to identify prominent concepts present in a judgment and extract sentences …