Scaled mass of the largest remnant (M_lr/M_tot) with respect to the impact energy scaled by the catastrophic disruption criterion (Q_R/$${\mathcal{Q}}_{\mathrm{R}\mathrm{D}}^{\ast }$$). The six datasets used in this study are represented with different symbols: square for data from Burger et al. (2020), upside–down triangle for data from Denman et al. (2020), plus symbol for data from Gabriel et al. (2020), star symbold for Timpe et al. (2020), circles for data from Crespi et al. (2021), and triangles for data from Winter et al. (2023). The colours denote the mass ratio γ. The black line corresponds to the universal law (Eq. (1)) and the gray area represent the dispersion δ. The range of possible slope η from LS12 is represented with dashed lines in the super-catastrophic regime. The most crowded regions are zoomed in the panels A (merging regime) and B (super-catastrophic regime). The region above the red dotted line at M_lr/M_tot = 0.95 is not included in the MCMC analysis.