'Such Inferior Courts...': Compliance by Circuits with Jurisprudential Regimes

After the Override: An Empirical Analysis of Shadow Precedent

“…. This accords with studies that find lower courts to be responsive to significant changes in the doctrine governing particular areas of law (for example,Luse et al 2009;Songer, Segal, and Cameron 1994).…”

The Nature of Legal Change on the U.S. Supreme Court: Jurisprudential Regimes Theory and Its Alternatives

“…Evidence for JRT has also been produced in establishment clause (Kritzer and Richards ), search and seizure (Kritzer and Richards ), and administrative law (Richards, Smith, and Kritzer ). JRT has been influential for subsequent work as well (e.g., Bartels ; Luse et al ; Scott ).…”

The Information Dynamics of Vertical Stare Decisis

“…Though most work on principal-agent questions examines delegation within and between the legislative and executive branches of government, there is also a substantial literature applying the principal-agent framework to judiciaries. Many of these studies assess the existence of vertical stare decisis, meaning they investigate the degree to which lower courts (i.e., judicial agents) follow the precedents established by higher courts (i.e., judicial principals) (e.g., Baum 1980;Luse et al 2009;Songer, Segal, and Cameron 1994;Songer and Sheehan 1990). Other studies examine whether lower courts take into account the current policy preferences of higher courts (e.g., Haire, Songer, and Lindquist 2003;Klein 2002;Randazzo 2008;Westerland et al 2010).…”