[Avodah] Court System Models

[Micha Berger]

I could see three ways one speaks of a big case. The first, just to
dismiss it, is that the case is high profile. Assuming your judges do
not show favoritism to the rich or famous, this should be irrelevant.

More to the point are two significant measures:
* difficulty, and
* size of impact. This is a somewhat blurry term that covers a number of
  things:
      - setting precedent, and thus impact to future din
      - the number of people involved
      - the severity of the chiyuv / issur

Mamzeirus, for example, is a broader impact (ledorei doros) and more
severe issur than how one observes YT sheini shel goliyos. (To borrow
RARakeffet's favorite comparison cases.)

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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