Analogical legal reasoning is a reasoning method which treats the case at hand like other cases because they resemble each other in some aspects.

• 类比法律推理是指由于待决案件与另一类案件的某些属性相同或相似，而将法律对另一类案件的法律效果归于待决案件的推理方法，它和演绎推理一起被认为是形式的推理方法。