What influences the influence of U.S. Courts of Appeals decisions?
| Autor: | Robert K. Christensen, John Szmer, Samuel J. Grubbs |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Economics and Econometrics
050208 finance 05 social sciences Commercial law Exploratory research Judicial opinion Affect (psychology) Unit of analysis Citation rate 0502 economics and business 050207 economics Business and International Management Citation Psychology Law Social psychology Public finance |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Law and Economics. 49:55-81 |
| ISSN: | 1572-9990 0929-1261 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10657-018-9588-5 |
| Popis: | In this exploratory study, we develop models of factors that influence the citation or influence of judicial opinions written by U.S. Courts of Appeals judges. Prior studies of citation patterns in the U.S. Courts of Appeals largely focus on the judge’s career as the unit of analysis. Not surprisingly, this research suggests judge-level factors tend to influence the degree to which judges’ opinions are cited in subsequent decisions. Utilizing a dataset with a random sample of individual cases as the unit of analysis, we compare the effects of judge, panel, and case factors. Overall, while several case-level factors influence the number of citations a case receives, few judge- and panel-level variables affect citation rates. The findings suggest that opinion citation models based on judge- and/or panel-level attributes alone miss the influence of case attributes on citation rates. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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