Is Wikipedia an appropriate source to cite to in legal scholarship? According to a simple "Secondary Sources" LexisNexis search of law reviews & journals, I discovered that quite a few law reviews believe that it is.
Number of Law Review Articles that Cite to Wikipedia
- 2000: 0
- 2001: 0
- 2002: 6
- 2003: 16
- 2004: 83
- 2005: 276
- 2006: 612
- 2007: 617
- 2008: 526
- 2009: 429
- 2010: 352*
- TOTAL: 2,917
*I speculate that this number is slightly larger than my search results represent due to the lag time in publication.
