Graph of Case Citation Relationships

If you're reading this, you probably came from professor Althouse's blog. Welcome!

I've got the image file in two formats:

  1. GIF. This is a reasonably compact file, but it's hard to resize smoothly (i.e., zoom in and out), and it may not display properly in some versions of Internet Explorer.
  2. PDF. This is a larger file, and it requires separate viewing software (Acrobat Reader, Foxit, etc.), but it's easy to zoom in on it or pan around.

The actual image generation is done with Graphviz, and the generation of the graph description is done with some custom scripts I wrote in Perl.

If anybody sees this and wants to incorporate these techniques into some sort of legal research, I'd be interested in collaborating.