Table 5.4.
Top time-averaged centralities (αi) and first-order-mover scores (mi) for Supreme Court decisions [64]. We give results for our temporal generalization [see Eq. (3.1)] of authority scores [73].
| Top Time-Averaged Centralities | |||
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| Rank | Decision | αi | mi |
| 1 | Gibbons v. Ogden (22 U.S. 1, 1824) | 0.172 | 284.8 |
| 2 | Minnesota Rate Case (230 U.S. 352, 1913) | 0.160 | 214.2 |
| 3 | McCulloch v. Maryland (17 U.S. 316, 1819) | 0.157 | 173.3 |
| 4 | Brown v. Maryland (25 U.S. 419, 1827) | 0.107 | 212.7 |
| 5 | Robbins v. Shelby County Tax. Distr. (120 U.S. 489, 1887) | 0.096 | 192.0 |
| 6 | Cooley v. Board of Wardens (53 U.S. 12, 1851) | 0.096 | 191.2 |
| 7 | Ex parte Young (209 U.S. 123, 1908) | 0.086 | 53.8 |
| 8 | Galveston & S.A. Ry. Co. v. Texas (210 U.S. 217, 1908) | 0.083 | 126.6 |
| 9 | Cantwell v. Connecticut (310 U.S. 296, 1940) | 0.082 | 516.2 |
| 10 | Welton v. State of Missouri (91 U.S. 275, 1875) | 0.082 | 168.5 |
| Top First-Order-Mover Scores | |||
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| Rank | Decision | mi | αi |
| 1 | Cantwell v. Connecticut (310 U.S. 296, 1940) | 516.21 | 0.0822 |
| 2 | Schneider v. State (308 U.S. 147, 1939) | 439.73 | 0.0707 |
| 3 | Thornhill v. Alabama (310 U.S. 88, 1940) | 388.08 | 0.0633 |
| 4 | Lovell v. City of Griffin (303 U.S. 444, 1938) | 369.00 | 0.0632 |
| 5 | Near v. Minnesota (283 U.S. 697, 1931) | 344.06 | 0.0729 |
| 6 | Gitlow v. New York (268 U.S. 652, 1925) | 316.33 | 0.0626 |
| 7 | DeJonge v. Oregon (299 U.S. 353, 1937) | 310.63 | 0.0554 |
| 8 | Stromberg v. California (283 U.S. 359, 1931) | 306.68 | 0.0563 |
| 9 | Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (315 U.S. 568, 1942) | 302.71 | 0.0487 |
| 10 | Whitney v. California (274 U.S. 357, 1927) | 291.03 | 0.0582 |