Using The Power Of Data Analytics To Share New Insights On The Illinois Supreme Court - Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration
Our short series of contextual reposts continues: Although the state Supreme Courts have not attracted anything near the level of study from academics engaged in empirical legal studies that the U.S. Supreme Courts and Federal Circuits have a number of different researchers have attempted to compare how influential the various state courts are for the development of American law. One of the first efforts was published in 1936 by Rodney L. Mott, "Judicial Influence" (30 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 295 (1936)). Using several different proxies for influence, including law professors' rankings, reprinting...
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