"Citology" : arithmetical methods to assess the impact of the jurisprudence

The article shows a new arithmetic proposal to assess influence of particular legal work on legal scholarships through the use of indicator to determine the number of citations of the author's particular work in the ranking of most cited articles. It briefly presents the methodology used by F. R. Shapiro, the creator of this new field, humorously called, "citationology" or "citology". It also briefly discusses the results of his work. The article presents the possible links between high number of citations and the evaluation of the quality of works cited. In the article, the author tries to answer the questions: what the consequences may have a certain number of citations for assessing individual author and what are the implications for the legal culture understood broader. Taking example of S.D. Warren and L. D. Brandeis' article Right to Privacy, the article shows that the number of citations may be seen as emanations of social needs, which effects in law changing.