Comparer des méthodes

	Évaluation de programme basée sur des documents	Analyse de la jurisprudence
Domaine	Méthodes de terrain	Méthodes de terrain
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1960s–1970s (program evaluation field); document review as formal strategy codified in 1980s–1990s	Medieval English common law; academic formalisation 19th–20th century
Auteur d'origine	Daniel Stufflebeam; Peter Rossi and Howard Freeman (systematic program evaluation tradition)	Common law tradition (England); systematised in Anglo-American jurisprudence
Type	Evaluation research design	Qualitative legal research method
Source fondatrice	Stufflebeam, D. L., & Shinkfield, A. J. (2007). Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications. Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 978-0787908331	Hutchinson, T. (2010). Researching and Writing in Law (3rd ed.). Thomson Reuters. ISBN: 9780455227689
Alias	documentary program evaluation, records-based evaluation, document review evaluation, archival program evaluation	judicial decision analysis, legal case analysis, jurisprudential analysis, case-based legal research
Apparentées	6	6
Résumé	Document-based program evaluation is a systematic approach to assessing a program's design, implementation, and outcomes using existing documentary evidence — such as policy statements, implementation reports, budgets, meeting minutes, and program artifacts — rather than primary data collection through interviews or observation. It is particularly suited to retrospective evaluations, accountability reviews, and contexts where direct fieldwork is impractical or infeasible.	Case law analysis is a systematic method for examining judicial decisions to identify binding legal rules, evolving doctrines, and interpretive trends. Rooted in the common law tradition of stare decisis, it requires the researcher to locate the ratio decidendi — the binding reasoning — of each decision, distinguish it from obiter dicta, and trace how that reasoning has been applied, distinguished, or overruled across subsequent cases. The method is fundamental to legal scholarship, litigation strategy, and law reform research.