Google Law Review Article Rankings

Last week I wrote about an enhancement to Google's Scholar Metrics that created a citation ranking of law reviews in Google Scholar. [UPDATE: Many more law reviews ranked here.] This led to another question: what would a citation ranking of individual law review articles look like according to the citation data in Google Scholar?

The functionality is only available for articles published in 2007-2011 (the same content on which Google's law review ranking is based) and for articles published in Google's top 20 law reviews. Using the data underlying Google's ranking of law reviews (see, for example here for the Harvard Law Review), I compiled a table of the 150 most-cited law review articles from Google's top 20 law reviews. The table ranks law review articles published between 2007 and 2011 by raw citation count, which is different from the method Google uses to rank law reviews but similar to existing article rankings by Shapiro and Pearse.

The results have much in common with the rankings from Shapiro and Pearse but also have some differences. One notable deficiency of the Google article rankings is the omission of all articles published in journals other than the most-cited 20 law reviews. This causes many highly-cited articles to be left out of the following table. The Google citation counts have other differences as described by Shapiro and Pearse in Part IV-B-1 of their essay, some of which are strengths and some of which are weaknesses.

The table of citation counts is listed below for the 150 most-cited law review articles in 2007-2011. I have not corrected Google's author names, capitalization, and other computer-generated quirks.

Rank	Number of Citations	Author(s)	Title	Law Review and Date
1	423	MA Lemley, C Shapiro	Frontiers of Intellectual Property: Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking	Tex. L. Rev. (2007)
2	355	SL Schwarcz	Systemic Risk	Geo. LJ (2008)
3	345	BL Garrett	Judging Innocence	Colum. L. Rev. (2008)
4	316	LA Bebchuk	Myth of the Shareholder Franchise, The	Va. L. Rev. (2007)
5	311	BM Frischman, MA Lemley	Spillovers	Colum. L. Rev. (2007)
6	273	LA Bebchuk, H Spamann	Regulating Bankers' Pay	Geo. LJ (2009)
7	262	M Kahan, EB Rock	HEDGE FUNDS IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND CORPORATE CONTROL	U. Pa. L. Rev. (2007)
8	250	H Li, M Pincus	Market Reaction to Events Surrounding the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Earnings Management	J. Law & Econ. (2008)
9	238	C Guthrie, JJ Rachlinski, AJ Wistrich	Blinking on the Bench: How Judges Decide Cases	Cornell L. Rev. (2007)
10	232	DJ Barron, MS Lederman	Commander in Chief at the Lowest Ebb-A Constitutional History, The	Harv. L. Rev. (2007)
11	229	WN Eskridge Jr, LE Baer	Continuum of Deference: Supreme Court Treatment of Agency Statutory Interpretations from Chevron to Hamdan, The	Geo. LJ (2007)
12	216	JN Gordon	The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
13	214	B Ackerman	2006 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES LECTURE: THE LIVING CONSTITUTION	Harv. L. Rev. (2007)
14	211	O Bar-Gill, E Warren	Making Credit Safer	U. Pa. L. Rev. (2008)
15	208	J Ramji-Nogales, AI Schoenholtz, PG Schrag	Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
16	201	M Wara	Measuring the Clean Development Mechanism's Performance and Potential	UCLA L. Rev. (2007)
17	199	JC Coffee Jr	Law and the Market: The Impact of Enforcement	U. Pa. L. Rev. (2007)
18	196	DM Kahan, DA Hoffman, D Braman	WHOSE EYES ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE? SCOTT V. HARRIS AND THE PERILS OF COGNITIVE ILLIBERALISM	Harv. L. Rev. (2009)
19	194	A Dreher, NM Jensen	Independent Actor or Agent? An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of US Interests on International Monetary Fund Conditions	J. Law & Econ. (2007)
20	187	J GIBSON	Risk Aversion and Rights Accretion in Intellectual Property Law	Yale LJ (2007)
21	186	J Grimmelmann	Saving Facebook	Iowa L. Rev. (2008)
22	181	CM Rodriguez	Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation, The	Mich. L. Rev. (2007)
23	177	RG Bone	Twombly, Pleading Rules, and the Regulation of Court Access	Iowa L. Rev. (2008)
24	169	HE SMITH	Intellectual Property as Property: Delineating Entitlements in Information	Yale LJ (2007)
25	166	MP McKenna	THE NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF TRADEMARK LAW	Notre Dame L. Rev. (2007)
26	162	RH Fallon Jr, DJ Meltzer	HABEAS CORPUS JURISDICTION, SUBSTANTIVE RIGHTS, AND THE WAR ON TERROR	Harv. L. Rev. (2007)
27	161	CA Bradley, JL Goldsmith, DH Moore	SOSA, CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND THE CONTINUING RELEVANCE OF ERIE	Harv. L. Rev. (2007)
28	161	P Ohm	Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization	UCLA L. Rev. (2009)
29	161	AR Miller	From Conley to Twombly to Iqbal: A Double Play on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure	Duke LJ (2010)
30	159	R Chesney, J Goldsmith	Terrorism and the Convergence of Criminal and Military Detention Models	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
31	157	E Benvenisti, GW Downs	Empire's New Clothes: Political Economy and the Fragmentation of International Law, The	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
32	156	MA Lemley, PJ Weiser	Should Property or Liability Rules Govern Information?	Tex. L. Rev. (2007)
33	155	SY Chou, I Rashad, M Grossman	Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity	J. Law & Econ. (2008)
34	154	JB Wiener	THINK GLOBALLY, ACT GLOBALLY: THE LIMITS OF LOCAL CLIMATE POLICIES	U. Pa. L. Rev. (2007)
35	154	L Epstein, AD Martin, KM Quinn, JA Segal	Ideological Drift among Supreme Court Justices: Who, When, and How Important	Nw. UL Rev. (2007)
36	153	EA Posner, CR Sunstein	Climate Change Justice	Geo. LJ (2007)
37	150	LE Willis	Against Financial-Literacy Education	Iowa L. Rev. (2008)
38	146	JM Golden	" Patent Trolls" and Patent Remedies	Tex. L. Rev. (2007)
39	145	RJ Lazarus	Super Wicked Problems and Climate Change: Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future	Cornell L. Rev. (2008)
40	142	B Beebe	Empirical Study of US Copyright Fair Use Opinions, 1978-2005, An	U. Pa. L. Rev. (2007)
41	141	BL Garret, PJ Neufeld	Invalid Forensic Science Testimony and Wrongful Convictions	Va. L. Rev. (2009)
42	141	LA Stout	Mythical Benefits of Shareholder Control, The	Va. L. Rev. (2007)
43	139	SV Shiffrin	THE DIVERGENCE OF CONTRACT AND PROMISE	Harv. L. Rev. (2007)
44	138	RB Siegel	Dead or Alive: Originalism as Popular Constitutionalism in Heller	Harv. L. Rev. (2008)
45	137	RH Fallon Jr	STRICT JUDICIAL SCRUTINY	UCLA L. Rev. (2007)
46	137	DA Kessler, DC Vladeck	Critical Examination of the FDA's Efforts to Preempt Failure-To-Warn Claims, A	Geo. LJ (2007)
47	136	I Anabtawi, L Stout	Fiduciary Duties for Activist Shareholders	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
48	135	A Winkler	SCRUTINIZING THE SECOND AMENDMENT	Mich. L. Rev. (2007)
49	131	HTC Hu, B Black	Equity and Debt Decoupling and Empty Voting II: Importance and Extensions	U. Pa. L. Rev. (2007)
50	131	A Kapczynski	Access to Knowledge Mobilization and the New Politics of Intellectual Property, The	Yale LJ (2007)
51	130	O Lobel	THE PARADOX OF EXTRALEGAL ACTIVISM: CRITICAL LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND TRANSFORMATIVE POLITICS	Harv. L. Rev. (2007)
52	130	D Lichtman, MA Lemley	Rethinking Patent Law's Presumption of Validity	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
53	129	EA Young	Constitution Outside the Constitution, The	Yale LJ (2007)
54	128	S Overton	VOTER IDENTIFICATION	Mich. L. Rev. (2007)
55	128	WW BRATTON	Hedge Funds and Governance Targets	Geo. LJ (2007)
56	126	J ARMOUR, DA SKEEL JR	Who Writes the Rules for Hostile Takeovers, and Why?--The Peculiar Divergence of US and UK Takeover Regulation	Geo. LJ (2007)
57	125	CM Vazquez	Treaties as Law of the Land: The Supremacy Clause and the Judicial Enforcement of Treaties	Harv. L. Rev. (2008)
58	125	DL Schwartz	Practice Makes Perfect-An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Reversal Rates in Patent Cases	Mich. L. Rev. (2008)
59	124	SA Thomas	Why Summary Judgment Is Unconstitutional	Va. L. Rev. (2007)
60	123	M Galanter, W Henderson	Elastic Tournament: A Second Transformation of the Big Law Firm, The	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
61	123	MP Narayanan, CA Schipani, HN Seyhun	THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF BACKDATING OF EXECUTIVE STOCK OPTIONS+	Mich. L. Rev. (2007)
62	123	RJ Mann	Bankruptcy Reform and the Sweat Box of Credit Card Debt	U. Ill. L. Rev., (2007)
63	122	J Litman	Frontiers of Intellectual Property: Lawful Personal Use	Tex. L. Rev. (2007)
64	122	A Agrawal, MA Chen	Do Analyst Conflicts Matter? Evidence from Stock Recommendations	Journal of Law and Economics (2008)
65	121	RJ Gilson, CJ Milhaupt	Sovereign Wealth Funds and Corporate Governance: A Minimalist Response to the New Mercantilism	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
66	121	RJ Gilson, CF Sabel, RE Scott	Contracting for Innovation: Vertical Disintegration and Interfirm Collaboration	Colum. L. Rev. (2009)
67	121	I Somin	Limits of Backlash: Assessing the Political Response to Kelo, The	Minn. L. Rev. (2008)
68	120	JR DeShazo, J Freeman	TIMING AND FORM OF FEDERAL REGULATION: THE CASE OF CLIMATE CHANGE	U. Pa. L. Rev. (2007)
69	120	RB Siegel	New Politics of Abortion: An Quality Analysis of Woman-Protective Abortion Restrictions, The	U. Ill. L. Rev., (2007)
70	120	GB Dinwoodie, MD Janis	Confusion Over Use: Contextualism in Trademark Law	Iowa L. Rev. (2007)
71	118	IFH Lopez	" A Nation of Minorities": Race, Ethnicity, and Reactionary Colorblindness	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
72	117	SL Schwarcz	Protecting Financial Markets: Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Meltdown	Minn. L. Rev. (2008)
73	114	E Volokh	MEDICAL SELF-DEFENSE, PROHIBITED EXPERIMENTAL THERAPIES, AND PAYMENT FOR ORGANS	Harv. L. Rev. (2007)
74	114	MC Nussbaum	Constitutions and Capabilities: Perception against Lofty Formalism	Harv. L. Rev. (2007)
75	114	DM Kahan	Cognitively Illiberal State, The	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
76	113	O Bar-Gill	Law, Economics and Psychology of Subprime Mortgage Contracts, The	Cornell L. Rev. (2008)
77	112	SM Benjamin, AK Rai	WHO'S AFRAID OF THE APA? WHAT THE PATENT SYSTEM CAN LEARN FROM ADMINISTRATIVE LAW	Geo. LJ (2007)
78	111	K Litvak	ARTICLEL SARBANES-OXLEY AND THE CROSS-LISTING PREMIUM	Mich. L. Rev. (2007)
79	111	JJ Rachlinski, SL Johnson, AJ Wistrich, C Guthrie	Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges	Notre Dame L. Rev. (2008)
80	110	RK Robinson	Perceptual Segregation	Colum. L. Rev. (2008)
81	110	NM Richards, DJ Solove	Privacy's Other Path: Recovering the Law of Confidentiality	Geo. LJ (2007)
82	109	JS Martinez	Process and Substance in the War on Terror	Colum. L. Rev. (2008)
83	109	DE Pozen	Irony of Judicial Elections, The	Colum. L. Rev. (2008)
84	108	JD Graham	Saving Lives through Administrative Law and Economics	U. Pa. L. Rev. (2008)
85	108	A Mossoff	WHO CARES WHAT THOMAS JEFFERSON THOUGHT ABOUT PATENTS? REEVALUATING THE PATENT" PRIVILEGE" IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT	Cornell L. Rev. (2007)
86	107	S Bhagat, B Bolton, R Romano	Promise and Peril of Corporate Governance Indices, The	Colum. L. Rev. (2008)
87	107	JH Wilkinson III	Of Guns, Abortions, and the Unraveling Rule of Law	Va. L. Rev. (2009)
88	106	MP Vandenbergh	The New Wal-Mart Effect: The Role of Private Contracting in Global Governance	UCLA L. Rev. (2007)
89	106	R Tushnet	Gone in Sixty Milliseconds: Trademark Law and Cognitive Science	Tex. L. Rev. (2007)
90	106	SL Dogan, MA Lemley	Grounding Trademark Law Through Trademark Use+	Iowa L. Rev. (2007)
91	105	TJ Miles, CR Sunstein	The New Legal Realism	The University of Chicago Law Review, (2008)
92	105	JM Balkin	Framework Originalism and the Living Constitution	Nw. UL Rev. (2009)
93	105	CA Nard, JF Duffy	Rethinking Patent Law's Uniformity Principle	Nw. UL Rev. (2007)
94	104	EA Posner, CR Sunstein	DEBATE: Chevronizing Foreign Relations Law	Yale LJ (2007)
95	104	LO Gostin	Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the World's Least Healthy People: Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health	Geo. LJ (2007)
96	103	JC Coffee Jr, HA Sale	Redesigning the SEC: Does the Treasury Have a Better Idea?	Virginia Law Review, (2009)
97	103	E Murphy	New Forensics: Criminal Justice, False Certainty, and the Second Generation of Scientific Evidence, The	Cal. L. Rev. (2007)
98	103	JD Levinson	Forgotten Racial Equality: Implicit Bias, Decisionmaking, and Misremembering	Duke LJ (2007)
99	103	TW Merrill	Preemption and Institutional Choice	Nw. UL Rev. (2008)
100	102	PM Schwartz, EJ Janger	NOTIFICATION OF DATA SECURITY BREACHES	Mich. L. Rev. (2007)
101	102	K Abrams	Immigration Law and the Regulation of Marriage	Minn. L. Rev. (2007)
102	102	KM Clermont, SC Yeazell	Inventing Tests, Destabilizing Systems	Iowa L. Rev. (2009)
103	101	AN Steinman	Pleading Problem, The	Stan. L. Rev. (2009)
104	101	MA Waters	Creeping Monism: The Judicial Trend toward Interpretive Incorporation of Human Rights Treaties	Colum. L. Rev. (2007)
105	101	BL Garrett	Structural Reform Prosecution	Va. L. Rev. (2007)
106	100	LA Rosenbury	Friends with Benefits	Mich. L. Rev. (2007)
107	100	K Stith	Arc of the Pendulum: Judges, Prosecutors, and the Exercise of Discretion, The	Yale LJ (2007)
108	100	AJ Sebok	Punitive Damages: From Myth to Theory	Iowa L. Rev. (2007)
109	100	GS Alexander	Social-Obligation Norm in American Property Law, The	Cornell L. Rev. (2008)
110	100	GN Magliocca	BLACKBERRIES AND BARNYARDS: PATENT TROLLS AND THE PERILS OF INNOVATION	Notre Dame L. Rev. (2007)
111	98	JE Ryan	Supreme Court and Voluntary Integration, The	Harv. L. Rev. (2007)
112	97	LS Bressman	Procedures as Politics in Administrative Law	Colum. L. Rev. (2007)
113	96	OS Kerr	Four Models of Fourth Amendment Protection	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
114	96	AB Spencer	Understanding Pleading Doctrine	Mich. L. Rev. (2009)
115	96	RB Siegel	Right's Reasons: Constitutional Conflict and the Spread of Woman-Protective Antiabortion Argument, The	Duke LJ (2007)
116	95	RE Barkow	Institutional Design and the Policing of Prosecutors: Lessons from Administrative Law	Stan. L. Rev. (2008)
117	95	CR Sunstein	On the Divergent American Reactions to Terrorism and Climate Change	Colum. L. Rev. (2007)
118	94	WJ Stuntz	Unequal Justice	Harv. L. Rev. (2007)
119	94	LA Bebchuk, A Hamdani	Elusive Quest for Global Governance Standards, The	U. Pa. L. Rev. (2008)
120	94	OS Kerr	Case for the Third-Party Doctrine, The	Mich. L. Rev. (2008)
121	94	AJ O'Connell	Political Cycles of Rulemaking: An Empirical Portrait of the Modern Administrative State	Virginia Law Review, (2008)
122	94	JH Langbein	TRUST LAW AS REGULATORY LAW: THE UNUM/PROVIDENT SCANDAL AND JUDICIAL REVIEW OF BENEFIT DENIALS UNDER ERISA	Nw. UL Rev. (2007)
123	93	DC Langevoort	THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF SARBANES-OXLEY	Mich. L. Rev. (2007)
124	93	J Grimmelmann	Structure of Search Engine Law, The	Iowa L. Rev. (2007)
125	92	WW Bratton, ML Wachter	Case against Shareholder Empowerment, The	U. Pa. L. Rev. (2009)
126	92	PH Robinson, R Kurzban	Concordance and Conflict in Intuitions of Justice	Minn. L. Rev. (2007)
127	92	T Baker, SJ Griffith	Predicting Corporate Governance Risk: Evidence from the Directors'& (and) Officers' Liability Insurance Market	U. Chi. L. Rev. (2007)
128	92	S Cho	Post-Racialism	Iowa L. Rev. (2008)
129	92	KW Hannon	Much Ado about Twombly-A Study on the Impact of Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly on 12 (b)(6) Motions	Notre Dame L. Rev. (2007)
130	91	CR Sunstein	Second Amendment Minimalism: Heller as Griswold	Harv. L. Rev. (2008)
131	91	RE Barkow	Insulating Agencies: Avoiding Capture through Institutional Design	Tex. L. Rev. (2010)
132	91	G Parchomovsky, KA Goldman	Fair Use Harbors	Va. L. Rev. (2007)
133	91	MA Stein	Disability Human Rights	Cal. L. Rev. (2007)
134	91	RG Bone	Plausibility Pleading Revisited and Revised: A Comment on Ashcroft v. Iqbal	Notre Dame L. Rev. (2009)
135	90	RH Fallon Jr	Core of an Uneasy Case for Judicial Review, The	Harv. L. Rev. (2007)
136	90	N Persily	Promise and Pitfalls of the New Voting Rights Act, The	Yale LJ (2007)
137	89	JO McGinnis, I Somin	GLOBAL CONSTITUTIONALISM: GLOBAL INFLUENCE ON US JURISPRUDENCE: Should International Law Be Part of Our Law?	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
138	89	DK Brown	Democracy and Decriminalization	Tex. L. Rev. (2007)
139	89	D Oliar, C Sprigman	There's No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy	Virginia Law Review, (2008)
140	88	AB Cox, EA Posner	The Second-Order Structure of Immigration Law	Stan. L. Rev. (2007)
141	88	KE Hickman, MD Krueger	In Search of the Modern Skidmore Standard	Colum. L. Rev. (2007)
142	88	H Motomaura	Immigration outside the Law	Colum. L. Rev. (2008)
143	88	OA Hathaway	Treaties' End: The Past, Present, and Future of International Lawmaking in the United States	Yale LJ (2007)
144	88	J Bulman-Pozen, HK Gerken	Uncooperative Federalism	Yale LJ (2008)
145	88	RJ Lazarus	Advocacy Matters before and within the Supreme Court: Transforming the Court by Transforming the Bar	Geo. LJ (2007)
146	88	MA Hall, RF Wright	Systematic Content Analysis of Judicial Opinions	Cal. L. Rev. (2008)
147	87	A Cox, TJ Miles	Judging the Voting Rights Act	Colum. L. Rev. (2008)
148	87	EA Hartnett	Taming Twombly, Even after Iqbal	U. Pa. L. Rev. (2009)
149	86	HC Kunreuther, EO Michel-Kerjan	CLIMATE CHANGE, INSURABILITY OF LARGE-SCALE DISASTERS, AND THE EMERGING LIABILITY CHALLENGE	U. Pa. L. Rev. (2007)
150	85	AM Rose	Reforming Securities Litigation Reform: Restructuring the Relationship between Public and Private Enforcement of Rule 10B-5	Colum. L. Rev. (2008)