Coding guide & replication data for 'Precedent as Rational Persuasion'

This study analyzed the uses that legal authors—judges and the lawyers appearing before them—made of previous court opinions that they cited in their arguments. The study developed novel methods for segmenting legal texts and studying this unit of analysis. The principal findings appear in the journal article "Precedent as Rational Persuasion," in volume 25 of <em>Legal Writing: Journal of the Legal Writing Institute</em>, forthcoming 2021. The most complete information about the dataset is in the file titled "Coding guide and Replication Data.PDF," and any external references to pagination in this dataset should be to that document.