I’ve tried to list all scholarly monographs with at least 1,000 citations (rounded to the nearest 100). I excluded treatises. Please email me with corrections or omissions
- John Hart Ely, Democracy and Distrust, 12,000
- Alexander Bickel, The Least Dangerous Branch, 8,700
- Bruce Ackerman, We the People, 4,200
- Ronald Dworkin, Freedom’s Law: The Moral Reading of the Constitution, 3,200
- Mark Tushnet, Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts, 3,100
- Larry Kramer, The People Themselves, 2,700
- Akhil Amar, The Bill of Rights, 2,400
- Michael Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: the Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, 2,400
- Cass Sunstein, One Case at a Time, 2,000
- Cass Sunstein, The Partial Constitution, 1,900
- Philip Bobbitt, Constitutional Fate, 1,600
- Richard Epstein, Takings, 1,500
- Sanford Levinson, Constitutional Faith, 1,500
- David A. Strauss, The Living Constitution, 1,500
- Randy Barnett, Restoring the Lost Constitution, 1,400
- Bruce Ackerman, Private Property and the Constitution, 1,300
- C. Edwin Baker, Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech, 1,300
- William Crosskey, Politics and the Constitution in the History of the U.S., 1,300
- Akhil Amar, American’s Constitution: A Biography, 1,100
- L.A. Powe, Jr., The Warren Court and American Politics, 1,100
- Geoffrey Stone, Perilous Times, 1,000
- Laurence Tribe, Constitutional Choices, 1,000
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