follow up to Hitt, 2016

[idc9]

compare citations from SCOTUS vs. other courts

- plot in-deg|jurisdiction vs. time for jurisdiction = SCOTUS, CA1, CA2, etc

The analysis also shows that measuring precedent using citation counts at the Supreme Court level (which are statistically indistinguishable from more sophisticated options like eigenvector centrality and authority scores)

Our analyses says differently i.e. while there is a lot of multicollinearity the different metrics do capture some different phenomena

• plot pairwise scatter plots for each vertex metric (in-deg, PageRank, etc)
  • look at PC plots of all vertex metrics