JurisRank: Measuring Legal Phenotypic Fitness Through Citation Networks

Key Points

• This paper investigates a method to quantify legal fitness based on citation networks.
• Developed JurisRank to analyze legal citations and their significance.
• Performed quantitative analysis on citation structures within legal documents.
• Utilized archived data from SSRN and Zenodo for assessment.
• Established a framework for evaluating legal documents based on citation impact.
• Demonstrated the potential of citation networks to serve as a measure of phenotypic fitness.
• Provided insights into how legal frameworks can be evaluated through data-driven methods.