SAKANOUE no Akimoto had close ties with the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), being said to have picked out articles concerning civil affairs from "Hossoshiyo-sho" to submit them to the bakufu at the request of the Kamakura bakufu, influenced not only kugeho (laws issued by the imperial court) in the later generations but also Goseibai-shikimoku (code of conduct for samurai) in the Kamakura period, and had an impact on studies of the transition process from kugeho to bukeho (the law system for the samurai society and the military government).
坂上明基は鎌倉幕府の依頼を受けて『法曹至要抄』の中の民事関係の記事を抄出して幕府に提出したと言われるなど幕府とのつながりも深く、後世の公家法のみならず、鎌倉幕府の御成敗式目にもその影響が見られ、公家法から武家法への移行過程の研究にも影響を与えている。