John Kastellec
jkastellec.bsky.social
John Kastellec
@jkastellec.bsky.social
Professor of Politics at Princeton University @Princeton . http://www.makingthesupremecourt.com
FWIW, this is a well-established finding in the judicial hierarchy literature. See e.g.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

(there's also this very nice paper on "reverse-bias" editorials:)

sites.brown.edu/brianknight/...
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