The authority of Supreme Court precedent

Social Networks

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-30

  Fowler, James H ^a   Jeon, Sangick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authority; Hub; Precedent; Social network; Supreme Court

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349088889     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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