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SCOTUS Citations to Scholarship by Term (5-Year Moving Average)
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Scholarship at the Supreme Court
This database catalogs every piece of legal scholarship cited by the Supreme Court of the United States in its opinions. It currently contains 15599 citations spanning law review articles, books and treatises, and other forms of legal scholarship.
The project grew out of a basic curiosity: which scholarly works does the Court actually rely on, and how often? Despite the Court’s longstanding engagement with academic writing, no comprehensive public resource existed to track these citations across opinions, terms, and subject areas. This database fills that gap.
Each entry records the author, title, publication, year, the number of times the work has been cited, and every case in which the citation appears. The interface supports full-text search, filtering by section, author, journal, year range, citation frequency, and citing case.
The data is drawn from a systematic review of Supreme Court opinions and is updated periodically. If you spot an error or omission, please reach out at alex@nunn.law.
About the Creator
Alex Nunn is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University School of Law. His research focuses on evidence, federal courts, and structural constitutional issues, exploring how practice, procedure, and the allocation of decisionmaking authority affect accuracy, efficiency, and legitimacy in the legal system.
Alex’s scholarship has been featured or is forthcoming in the nation’s top legal journals, including the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Emory Law Journal, and the peer-reviewed International Journal of Evidence and Proof.
Alex is also an accomplished teacher. At Texas A&M, he was named the 2025 Professor of the Year for his excellence in teaching Evidence. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law, where he also received the Lewis E. Epley, Jr. Professor of the Year Award for Excellence in Teaching in each of his four years there (2019–2022).
Alex serves as the co-host of Excited Utterance, a podcast focusing on scholarship in evidence and proof. He is a member of the executive committee for the AALS Evidence Section and the programming committee for the Evidence Summer Workshop.
Prior to joining academia, Alex clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review.
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