On January 6, I presented "Legal Goals and the Transmission of Circuit Court Precedents: Lessons from Federal Administrative Decisions" at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association in New Orleans, LA.
Here is the abstract:
This study examines the transmission of routine precedents among federal circuit court judges, focusing especially on immigration cases. It is hypothesized that judges send signals in their opinions that affect whether other judges cite them, and that these signals matter because judges care about legal goals. The results indicate that legal signals do affect citation patterns, but that judges are also responsive to ideology, the importance of precedents, and the behavior of neighboring and expert circuits.
Here is the abstract:
This study examines the transmission of routine precedents among federal circuit court judges, focusing especially on immigration cases. It is hypothesized that judges send signals in their opinions that affect whether other judges cite them, and that these signals matter because judges care about legal goals. The results indicate that legal signals do affect citation patterns, but that judges are also responsive to ideology, the importance of precedents, and the behavior of neighboring and expert circuits.
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