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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...

Deborah Rhode and her dog Stanton. Photo: TIMOTHY ARCHIBALD/Stanford Magazine on January 11, 2021 Law professor Deborah Rhode, a renowned legal ethics and gender law and policy scholar, died on Friday at 68. To wrap Rhode’s countless board positions, awards, publications, and accomplishments otherwise is an impossible task. Over the course of her legal career, Rhode authored 30 books on gender, ethics and public policy and became the most cited scholar in legal ethics.  “I don’t know of another legal academic career that remotely matches it,” Ralph Cavanagh, Rhode’s husband, told T...