
The essay applies to judicial decisions the techniques Sbisa (2007) established for retrieving information that texts implicitly carry with them. In order to consider the functions implicit information plays in these kinds of texts, excerpts from opinions are analyzed looking for their presuppositions and implicatures. The examples show that when decisions depend on judges’ choice of one amongst the competing implicatures the text of a statute makes available, detecting the chosen implicature may help the interpreter better track down the ratio decidendi; further, they show that making explicit presuppositions and implicatures evoked by the text of opinions may contribute to a deeper understanding of the grounds of the decisions. Il saggio applica alle sentenze gli strumenti elaborati da Sbisa (2007) per estrarre in modo ragionato gli impliciti che i testi portano con se. Per individuare le funzioni svolte dall’informazione veicolata implicitamente in questo tipo di testi, sono esplicitate presupposizioni e implicature di alcuni brani tratti da judicial opinions. L’analisi mostra che quando le decisioni dipendono dalla scelta dei giudici di una delle implicature rese disponibili da un testo normativo, individuare quella effettivamente scelta aiuta l’interprete a seguire meglio il ragionamento della corte; inoltre, mostra che esplicitare presupposizioni e implicature suggerite dal testo delle opinions puo consentire una comprensione piu profonda delle motivazioni delle sentenze.
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