When lawyers think about legal writing, they tend to focus on their submissions to courts. Some of my work shows that writing quality matters from trial courts on up. Lawyers aren’t the only court actors who care about their legal writing though. Lawrence Baum and others (including Judge Posner) have looked at judicial writings and…
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With a Little Help from Academic Scholarship
Judges’ citations tell a lot about their dispositions. We can glean relationships between cases, judges’ perspectives on these cases, and judges’ relationships with other judges based on case citations. For this reason, empirical scholars have spent much time and energy analyzing judges’ citation patterns. A slew of Supreme Court researchers have written fascinating pieces about…
Empirical SCOTUS 