Federal Circuit Patent Precedent: An Empirical Study of Institutional Authority and IP Ideology

Precedent and Legal Authority: A Critical History

Precedent and Authority in Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence

The authority of Supreme Court precedent

We construct the complete network of 30,288 majority opinions written by the U.S. Supreme Court and the cases they cite from 1754 to 2002 in he United States Reports. Data from this network demonstrates quantitatively the evolution of the norm of stare decisis in the 19th Century and significant deviation from this norm by the activist Warren Court. We further describe a method for creating aut...

ideology and dubbing: domestication of dialects

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Institutional Sources of Legitimate Authority : An Experimental

Unelected officials with coercive powers (e.g., police, prosecutors, bureaucrats) vary markedly in the extent to which citizens view their actions as legitimate. We explore the institutional determinants of legitimate authority in the context of a public goods laboratory experiment. In the experiment, an “authority” can target one “citizen” for punishment following citizen contribution choices....