Learn to identify and categorize the four types of facts used in legal storytelling: Analysis Facts, Context Facts, Emotional Facts, and Character Facts.
The Four Types of Facts
Not all facts serve the same purpose. Effective legal storytellers categorize their facts before writing:
Analysis Facts — Facts that directly prove legal elements. These are the facts your rule requires. For a negligence claim: duty, breach, causation, damages.
Context Facts — Background facts that help readers understand the situation. They don't prove legal elements but provide necessary context.
Emotional Facts — Facts that create sympathy, outrage, or other feelings. They make readers care about the outcome.
Character Facts — Facts that humanize parties, showing who they are as people beyond their legal role.
Your Task: Drag each fact into the correct category. Consider: Does this fact prove a legal element? Set the scene? Create feeling? Humanize someone?
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