Vol. 2 No. Issue-11, January,2026,Pg1962-1977 (2026): Judicial Precedent in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Evaluating the Future of Stare Decisis in the Indian Legal System

Abstract  

The embedding of Artificial Intelligence into judicial decision-support tools, semantic research processes, and legal research options demonstrates a structural barrier to the doctrine of stare decisis under the legal hierarchy of India. However, this technology reinforces operational efficacy in resolving the Indian court backlogs; the adoption process is threatening in front of the Policy Directives and Judges in terms of constitutional integrity. This research study aims to outline the acceptance pattern of judicial precedent in the age of Artificial Intelligence-driven legal judgment under the Indian legal system. The study strictly followed a secondary qualitative thematic analysis to validate the identified research problem. The major finding of this study is that AI-driven legal judgment, by implying the protocols of Articles 21 and 141, creates structural bias and jurisprudential stagnation while predicting judgments in legal cases. Finally, this study recommends the mixed data collection method by entitling both secondary qualitative and primary quantitative methods to validate the outcome both statistically and thematically.      

Keywords: Judicial Precedent, Artificial Intelligence, Stare Decisis, Indian Legal System, AI Algorithmic Hallucinations, Large Language Models