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  • Legal studies
  • Complexity science
  • Computational social science

Background:

  • Understanding judicial influence is key to legal discourse dynamics.
  • The US Supreme Court's role in shaping federal court legal language is debated.
  • Existing models struggle to disentangle direct and indirect influence mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the US Supreme Court's influence on federal court legal discourse.
  • To differentiate between selection and authorship mechanisms of judicial influence.
  • To quantify the impact of the Supreme Court's discretionary jurisdiction versus its own legal innovations.

Main Methods:

  • Application of a dynamic influence model to US federal court opinions.
  • Development of a novel influence measure using a dynamic topic model.
  • Separation of the Supreme Court's language innovations from lower courts' innovations.

Main Results:

  • The Supreme Court primarily influences federal courts through a selection mechanism.
  • Discretionary jurisdiction plays a more significant role than the Court's direct language innovations.
  • A modest influence was also observed through the authorship mechanism.

Conclusions:

  • The US Supreme Court's impact on legal discourse is predominantly indirect, via case selection.
  • The findings highlight the importance of judicial discretion in shaping legal language.
  • This study offers a new method for measuring judicial influence in legal systems.