Interpretive Canons (BVerfG) - Historical Interpretation: leaderboard
Historical interpretation from the interpretive-canons benchmark on decisions of the German Federal Constitutional Court (Ringe, ICML 2026 AI4Law Workshop): does an argument rest on the legislative history of the provision. Positive-class F1 in percent on 120 held-out sentence pairs, with one expert-written prompt for every model; higher is better.
Metric: Positive-class F1 (%; historical interpretation (geschichte): whether the argument rests on the legislative history, sentence-level binary classification in German Federal Constitutional Court decisions; expert-written prompt with worked examples (the same for every model), reasoning models at temperature 1.0; decision-disjoint held-out test split (60% of each subtask, 1:3 positives to negatives)). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 4 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | 72.7 | #300 |
| 2 | MiniMax-M3 | 64.6 | #265 |
| 3 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | 62.1 | #181 |
| 4 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | 62 | #254 |
No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.
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