# kaal:claim:5887242-011

**Claim.** The WDAG itself constitutes an evolutionary precedent system: each rule is an immutable vertex, new rules must cite existing vertices to create weighted directed edges reflecting citation frequency, recency and expert consensus strength, and rarely cited rules decay organically.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Each UDLC article or rule exists as an immutable vertex. New rules must cite existing vertices, creating weighted, directed edges that reflect citation frequency, recency, and expert consensus strength. Rarely cited rules experience organic weight decay

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted* (2025), Chapter II.A, page 7

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242

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**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, citation-and-knowledge

**Keywords.** wdag, precedent, citation-weights, weight-decay, garbage-collection

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