'CITATION ANALYSIS' in legal research can be used for:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D.
1. CITATION ANALYSIS in legal research has multiple applications:
2. (i) TRACING DOCTRINAL EVOLUTION — which cases cite which; how doctrines develop;
3. (ii) IDENTIFYING SEMINAL DECISIONS — heavily cited landmarks;
4. (iii) MEASURING IMPACT of judges, scholars, decisions (judicial citation indices);
5. (iv) NETWORK ANALYSIS — citation graphs as social network structures;
6. (v) STARE DECISIS RESEARCH — verifying authority and treatment of precedents;
7. (vi) ASSESSING JUDICIAL ELITES — which judges are most cited;
8. (vii) COMPARATIVE STUDY — citations across jurisdictions.
9. TOOLS:
10. (i) WESTLAW KEYCITE, LEXISNEXIS SHEPARD'S — verify case status;
11. (ii) MANUPATRA / SCC ONLINE history features;
12. (iii) Custom databases for empirical research.
13. Hence option B is correct.
_Source: Legal Research Methodology + Jurisprudence — Citation analysis in legal research_
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