Contributors
Data
The dataset, covering the cross-citations of the ten supreme courts between 2000 and 2007, is available here!
Papers
Martin Gelter and Mathias Siems, "Networks, Dialogue or One-Way Traffic? An Empirical Analysis of Cross-Citations between Ten of Europe’s Highest Courts", Utrecht Law Review, vol. 8 (2012), pp. 88-99 (freely available)
This paper introduces our dataset on cross-citations between the ten courts, also presenting different ways to visualize this information. It is part of a special issue of the Utrecht Law Review on Highest Courts and Transnational Interaction (available here)
Martin Gelter and Mathias Siems, "Language, Legal Origins, and Culture before the Courts: Cross-Citations between Supreme Courts in Europe", Supreme Court Economic Review, vol. 21 (2013), pp. 215-269, working paper version available at SSRN
In this paper we undertake regression analysis in order to understand the differences between the cross-citations of the ten countries.
Martin Gelter and Mathias Siems, "Citations to Foreign Courts – Illegitimate and Superfluous, or Unavoidable? Evidence from Europe", American Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 62 (2014), pp. 35-85, working paper version available at SSRN
This paper explicitly focuses on the desirability of cross-citations. It revisits our quantitative data but also develops a qualitative taxonomy of different types of cross-citations.