Every day, millions of administrative transactions take place. Insurance policies, credit appraisals, permit and welfare applications, to name a few, are created, invoked, and assessed. Though often treated as banalities of modern life, these transactions often carry significant importance. To...

As courts strive to simultaneously remain self-consistent and adapt to new legal challenges, a complex network of of citations between decided cases is established. Using network science methods to analyze the underlying patterns of citations between cases can help us understand the large-scale...