List of top 10 legal articles in Shapiro’s citation data in the United States

• R.H. Coase, The Problem of Social Cost, 3 J.L. & Econ. 1 (1960).
• Samuel D. Warren & Louis D.Brandeis, The Right to Privacy, 4 Harv. L. Rev. 193 (1890).
• O.W. Holmes, The Path of the Law, 10 Harv. L. Rev. 457 (1897).
• Gerald Gunther, The Supreme Court, 1971 Term—Foreword: In Search of Evolving Doctrine on a Changing Court: A Model for a Newer Equal Protection, 86 Harv.L. Rev. 1 (1972).
• Herbert Wechsler, Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law, 73 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (1959).
• Guido Calabresi & A. Douglas Melamed, Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral, 85 Harv. L. Rev. 1089 (1972).
• Charles A. Reich, The New Property, 73 Yale L.J. 733 (1964).
• Charles R. Lawrence III, The Id, the Ego, and Equal Protection:Reckoning with Unconscious Racism, 39 Stan. L. Rev. 317 (1987).
• William J. Brennan, Jr., State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights, 90 Harv. L. Rev. 489 (1977).
• Robert H. Bork, Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems, 47 Ind. L.J. 1 (1971).

This ranking was published in a paper titled “The most-cited review articles of all time” by Fred R. Shapiro and Michelle Pearse, and available at ww.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/110/8/Shapiro_and_Pearse.pdf.

This paper also offer tables with the 100 most-cited legal articles of all time, the 100 most-cited articles of the last twenty years, and some additional rankings.