About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

34 UCLA L. Rev. 131 (1986-1987)
Citing of Law Reviews by the Supreme Court: An Empirical Study

handle is hein.journals/uclalr34 and id is 145 raw text is: THE CITING OF LAW REVIEWS BY THE SUPREME COURT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY Louis J. Sirico, Jr.* and Jeffrey B. Margulies** In recent years, a few studies have ranked legal periodi- cals according to the frequency with which other periodicals' and courts2 cite them. This study examines the frequency * Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law. B.A., Yale Univer- sity, 1967; J.D., University of Texas, 1972. ** Associate, Haight, Dickson, Brown & Bonesteel, Santa Monica, California; B.S., Duke University, 1982; J.D., Villanova University School of Law, 1986. 1. See Ellman, A Comparison of Law Faculty Production in Leading Law Reviews, 33 J. LEGAL EDUC. 681 (1983); Maru, Measuring the Impact of Legal Periodicals, 1976 AM. B. FOUND. RES. J. 227. For a list of law review articles most cited by other law reviews, see Shapiro, The Most-Cited Law Review Articles, 73 CALIF. L. REV. 1540, 1549 (1985). 2. See, e.g., Bernstein, The Supreme Court and Secondary Source Material: 1965 Term, 57 GEO. L.J. 55, 67 (1968); Daniels, Far Beyond the Law Reports: Secondary Source Citations in United States Supreme Court Opinions, October Terms 1900, 1940, and 1978, 76 LAw LIBR. J. 1, 30-32 (1983); Mann, The North Carolina Supreme Court 1977: A Statistical Analysis, 15 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 39, 61 (1979); Newland, Legal Periodicals and the United States Supreme Court, 7 U. KAN. L. REV. 477, 481-82 (1959); see also Archibald, Stare Decisis and the Ohio Supreme Court, 9 W. REs. L. REV. 23, 26-28 (1957) (listing frequency of citations of all secondary sources in opinions from 1951 to 1955); Scurlock, Scholarship and the Courts, 32 UMKC L. REV. 228, 232-58 (1964) (listing frequency of citations of all secondary sources in criminal case opinions for three state courts and the United States Supreme Court from 1958 to 1962). Other studies have analyzed judicial citation practices. See, e.g., Friedman, Kagan, Cartwright & Wheeler, State Supreme Courts: A Century of Style and Citation, 33 STAN. L. REV. 773 (1981); Kagan, Cartwright, Friedman & Wheeler, The Evolu- tion of State Supreme Courts, 76 MIcH. L. REV. 961 (1978); Landes & Posner, Legal Precedent: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, 19 J.L. & ECON. 249 (1976); Mer- ryman, The Authority of Authority, 6 STAN. L. REV. 613 (1954); Merryman, Toward a Theory of Citations: An Empirical Study of the Citation Practice of the California Supreme Court in 1950, 1960, and 1970, 50 S. CAL. L. REV. 381 (1977); Reynolds, The Court of Appeals in Maryland: Roles, Work and Performance, 38 MD. L. REV. 148 (1978);

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most