"Treating Like Cases Alike"is not only a normative issue,but also an empirical is-sue.Based on the empirical study on the disputes of shareholders'right to information,under the cir-cumstance that the judicial opinions made by Supreme People's Court on specific legal issues are vague,China's"Treating Like Cases Alike"presents the structural feature of"organized decentrali-zation".The so-called"decentralization"means that the realization of"Treating Like Cases A-like"depends on the specific situation that shapes the interactive relationship between courts at all levels,and it is difficult to measure it uniformly with a single factor such as region and court level.In practice,there are three modes of"Treating Like Cases Alike"formally based on the division of provinces,such as"choosing the superior and obeying","choosing the public and obeying"and"on a case-by-case basis",and a hierarchical distribution patterns of judicial opinions of local courts with high courts and intermediate courts as nodes is formed under the provinces.The so-called"organized"means that decentralized distribution is not disorderly distribution,and Supreme People's Court can still have broad principled control over the judicial opinions of lower courts in a certain way.It is of great significance to reveal this structural feature of China's"Treating Like Cases Alike"for rethinking the basic issues such as the value idea of"Treating Like Cases Alike"in Chi-na.
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