Our short series of contextual reposts continues:
Although the state Supreme Courts have not attracted anything
near the level of study from academics engaged in empirical legal
studies that the U.S. Supreme Courts and Federal Circuits have a
number of different researchers have attempted to compare how
influential the various state courts are for the development of
American law. One of the first efforts was published in 1936 by
Rodney L. Mott, Judicial Influence (30 Am. Pol.
Sci. Rev. 295 (1936)). Using several different proxies for
influence, including law professors rankings, reprinting of a
court s cases in casebooks, citations by other state Supreme