Ten Most-Cited Law Faculty in the United States, 2010-2014

This is based on the data collected and published in 2015 by Professor Sisk and colleagues.  I'll be posting additional data about most cited faculty in various areas of scholarship.  But to start, here's the ten most-cited faculty in the academic literature for the years 2010 through 2014 inclusive:

 

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Area(s)	Age in 2016
1	Cass Sunstein	Harvard University	5480	Constitutional, Administrative, Environmental, Behavioral Law & Economics	62
2	Erwin Chemerinsky	University of California, Irvine	2940	Constitutional, Civil Procedure	63
3	Richard Epstein	New York University, University of Chicago	2680	Constitutional, Torts, Law & Economics	73
4	Eric Posner	University of Chicago	2470	Law & Economics, International, Commercial Law, Contracts	51
5	Mark Lemley	Stanford University	2400	Intellectual Property	50
6	William Eskridge, Jr.	Yale University	2180	Constitutional, Legislation	65
7	Mark Tushnet	Harvard University	1880	Constitutional, Legal History	71
8	Akhil Amar	Yale University	1790	Constitutional	58
9	Bruce Ackerman	Yale University	1730	Constitutional	73
10	Lawrence Lessig	Harvard University	1720	Constitutional, Intellectul Property, Cyberlaw	55