As one of the few studies to examine internal influence among Justices on the United States Supreme Court, this Note seeks to identify the most influential individuals on the Rehnquist Court. Using an empirical analysis of non-majority opinion joining behavior, this Note examines two time periods separately: the entire Rehnquist Court (the 1986 to 2004 Terms) and the time when the membership on...

The prevalence of online social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube has attracted considerable research in social influence analysis with applications in viral marketing, online advertising, recommender systems, information diffusion, and experts finding. Social influence occurs when one?s emotions, opinions, or behaviors are affected by others. Most of the works on social inf...

The presence of outliers and influential cases may affect the validity and robustness of the conclusions from a meta-analysis. While researchers generally agree that it is necessary to examine outlier and influential case diagnostics when conducting a meta-analysis, limited studies have addressed how to obtain such diagnostic measures in the context of a meta-analysis. The present paper extends...