Chen, Daniel L.; Frankenreiter, Jens - 2022
assignment of U.S. Federal judges setting geographically-local precedent to document the causal impact of court decisions in a … hierarchical legal system. We examine lower court cases filed before and resolved after higher court decisions and find that lower … courts are 29-37% points more likely to rule in the manner of the higher court. The results obtain when the higher court case …