Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Empirical Legal Studies is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Plugging the pipe? Evaluating the (null) effects of leaks on Supreme Court legitimacy122
Does the 1L curriculum make a difference?21
The distribution of in‐person public K‐12 education in the time ofCOVID: An empirical perspective14
A Survey of Preferences for Estate Distribution at Death12
Sentence Variability in a Mathematical Sentencing Framework: A Statistical Analysis of Brazilian Court Data12
Imputing Proxy Advisor Recommendations12
Bridging the Human– AI Fairness Gap: How Providing Reasons Enhances the Perceived Fairness of Public Decision‐Making11
Market versus policy responses to novel occupational risks11
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Can you trust your lawyer's call? Legal advisers exhibit myside bias resistant to debiasing interventions9
Issue Information9
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Patents and Supra‐Competitive Prices: Evidence From Consumer Products7
Secured credit and bankruptcy resolution7
Judging fast or slow: The effects of reduced caseloads on gender‐ and ethnic‐based disparities in case outcomes7
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Stay at home if you can: COVID‐19 stay‐at‐home guidelines and local crime6
Constitutional accountability for police shootings6
Issue Information6
Private security and public police6
Income and Preferences for International Redistribution: Theory and Evidence6
Issue Information6
The Diffusion of Deal Innovations in Complex Contractual Networks5
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Hiding Lawyer Misconduct: Evidence From Florida5
Foreword JELS 22.4 (December 2025)5
Patents Used in Patent Office Rejections as Indicators of Value5
Issue Information5
Privacy decision‐making and the effects of privacy choice architecture: Experiments toward the design of behaviorally‐aware privacy regulation5
Asymmetric review of qualified immunity appeals4
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The role of cable news hosts in public support for Supreme Court decisions4
Law, Justice and Reason‐Giving4
The role of character‐based personal mitigation in sentencing judgments3
Issue Information3
Lucky you: Your case is heard by a seasoned panel—Panel effects in the German Constitutional Court3
Market Response to Court Rejection of California's Board Diversity Laws3
One judge to rule them all: Single‐member courts as an answer to delays in criminal trials3
Assessing the Conservative Nature of the Supreme Court of Japan via Ideal Point Estimation of Justices3
Correction to “Paying for Performance? Attorneys' Fees in Fraud Class Actions”3
Foreword3
Centered Advantage: A Geographic Measure of Partisan Fairness in Redistricting3
Chain novel, or Markov chain? Estimating the authority of U.S. Supreme Court case law3
No Adjudication3
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