“…For example, Hunter et al (2008, p. 79) state: 'This tradition has not been established in the United Kingdom, perhaps because we do not have a sufficient number of judges at the appropriate level who are not male and white to make such statistical analysis worthwhile'. Still, researchers have applied quantitative methods to datasets of case law from, for example, Belgium (De Jaeger 2017), the Czech Republic (Bricker 2017), France (Sulea et al 2017a), Germany (Dyevre 2015; Bricker 2017), Israel (Doron et al 2015), Latvia (Bricker 2017), the Netherlands (Vols et al 2015;Vols and Jacobs 2017;van Dijck 2018;Bruijn et al 2018), Poland (Bricker 2017), Slovenia (Bricker 2017), Spain (Garoupa et al 2012) and Sweden (Derlén and Lindholm 2018).…”