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Mapping the complexity of law
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Posted by: Jason Cawley
There is an interesting article in a recent Economist about the network of citations in supreme court cases in the US, that cites Seth Chandler's work on the subject.
"Mr Chandler obtained some 26,000 opinions issued by the Supreme Court between the early 19th century and the present day. He treated each of these cases as a node and each citation from one case to another as a link. The result was a complicated web resembling a map of cities linked by dozens of airlines."
Though the Economist article doesn't go into the technical methods, this worked harnessed Mathematica to reduce a large XML database to tractable computational form. Chandler's full paper gives the details.
For the Economist article, you can look here -
http://www.economist.com/science/di...tory_id=4316174
Chandler's abstract and a link to the original paper in PDF can be found here -
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....tract_id=742065
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