Shay O’Brien

@shayobrien.bsky.social

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Sociologist and Stone Center Postdoc at MIT studying elite kinship networks. Incoming AP at Berkeley Sociology starting January 2027 (she/her)

This horizontal lollipop chart shows the number of citations for all the court cases in Dallas from 1895-1945 that made it to more than one round of trial. The Y axis has a line for each case, and the X axis has the number of citations as of April 2025. The cases from upper-class families are represented by white triangles, and the cases from all other families are represented by gray circles. It is clear visually that the upper-class cases have been cited much more often over the past century, on average and in total.