“Trial By Formula”

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review an 8th Circuit “donning and doffing” case in which the Court may review or refine its 2011 Walmart v. Dukes decision.

I have often thought that civil litigation would be a part of our commerce that would be least vulnerable to replacement by machines but I wonder how “trial by formula,” in which large numbers of individual claims are aggregated and resolved through statistical sampling and analysis, is not a large stride in that direction?