Supreme Court highly rated in study
Fair Courts E-lert

Date of E-Lert – 06/09/08

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Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Date: 05/31/2008

Article reports that in a recent study, the Arkansas Supreme Court ranked second to California in one combination of factors weighed as a means of evaluating the best high court in the nation. Among the factors considered in the study were "the number of opinions the justices wrote, the number of times their opinions were cited in the rulings by judges in other states, and the independence of the judges to differ with their colleagues." Professor Stephen Choi of New York University Law School said that as "a traditionally overlooked state," Arkansas "may deserve more credit." Choi, along with professor Mitu Gulati of Duke University Law School, and professor Eric Posner of the University of Chicago Law School headed the state court study. 

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