Corporate & Securities Law

Blog Cite Counts

By Stephen Bainbridge

Orin Kerr:

Volokh Conspiracy Citations in the Westlaw JLR Database:
By year: 2004, 14 citations. 2005, 22 citations. 2006, 69 citations. 2007, 43 citations. Note that the high number of citations in 2006 resulted in part from the publication of papers from conferences about law blogs, and that the number of citations for 2007 will likely increase in the future because not all journals have posted their final 2007 issues to the database. (Methodology: JLR database queries for “volokh conspiracy” limited to each year.)

David Zarig of Conglomerate:

By my count, we’ve had 17 cites in 2007 and 20 cites in 2006.  Which is about exactly where the conspirators were during their first two years of existence (they had 14 in 2004 and 22 in 2005).  The Glom cites were to a wide variety of posts as well - the regular ones, the virtual workshops, and sometimes even to the comments left on posts.

Of course, if Orin used my methodology ((conglomerate /5 (blog weblog)) theconglomerate! theconglomerate.org! www.theconglomerate.org! in JLR), he might get himself a few, but not many, more hits.

Using David’s methodology, adapted appropriately, my blog had 49 hits in the JLR directory, going back to 1993. Plus 3 hits in allstates/allfeds combined. Breaking it out on an annual basis seemed too much like work. 

Full post as published by BusinessAssociationsBlog.com on January 31, 2008 (boomark / email).