America's sweetheart Denise Howell, the law blogger recently ousted from her firm, has alerted us to the latest instance of a judge citing the works of a law blogger. This time, preeminent legal scholar and blawgger Eugene Volokh (www.volokh.com) was quoted in a District Court dissent.



Ian Best of 3L Epiphany (http://3lepiphany.typepad.com/) is keeping a running total of the number of courts who have cited law blogs. As of 3L Epiphany's most recent update, there are 32 citations of legal blogs from 27 different cases, with 8 legal blogs being cited.





This means that blogs are steadily become legitimized as a form of scholarship (like it or not) and that certain law bloggers are advancing beyond mere Internet celebrity.