Mapping the Science of Law: A Jurimetrics Analysis

Authors

Jeyshankar -. Ramalingam -, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Alagappa UNiversity, Tamil Nadu, IndiaFollow
Nishavathi EFollow

Date of this Version

Fall 12-31-2018

Document Type

Article

Citation

Nishavathi, E and Jeyshankar, R (2018) Mapping the Science of Law: A Jurimetrics Analysis

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Abstract

This article provides an outline for jurimetrics and its role in finding most relevant and influential decisions of Supreme Court of India particularly in the topic of sexual harassment covering the period of 5 years (2012 to 2016). It retrieved 35 precedents that cited 662 legal information sources. These precedents are further analyzed with the network measures such as degree centrality, closeness centrality and authoritative scores to find out the influential and relevant decisions in sexual harassment. The precedents of Supreme Court of India (V_n=575) legal citation network is created to map the science of law.