Leaver, Clare; Vidal, Jordi Blances i - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
This paper uses data on judicial citations to explore whether the diffusion and/or application of knowledge within an … hypotheses: knowledge diffusion whereby connected judges are more likely to be aware of each others` cases than unconnected … connections occur over time. We are able to reject the knowledge diffusion hypothesis in its simplest form. We are unable to …