| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Role of Nonprofit Enterprise | Yale Law Journal | 1980 | 1,837 |
| 2 | The Transformation of Europe | Yale Law Journal | 1991 | 1,147 |
| 3 | Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Divorce | Yale Law Journal | 1979 | 1,060 |
| 4 | Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference? | Yale Law Journal | 2002 | 1,056 |
| 5 | Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and "The Nature of the Firm" | Yale Law Journal | 2002 | 1,016 |
| 6 | The Trolley Problem | Yale Law Journal | 1985 | 939 |
| 7 | Why Do Nations Obey International Law? | Yale Law Journal | 1997 | 919 |
| 8 | Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning | Yale Law Journal | 1913 | 909 |
| 9 | Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning | Yale Law Journal | 1917 | 605 |
| 10 | The Core of the Case against Judicial Review | Yale Law Journal | 2006 | 601 |
| 11 | Sharing Nicely: On Shareable Goods and the Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production | Yale Law Journal | 2004 | 586 |
| 12 | Violence and the Word | Yale Law Journal | 1986 | 568 |
| 13 | Settling Accounts: The Duty to Prosecute Human Rights Violations of a Prior Regime | Yale Law Journal | 1991 | 516 |
| 14 | Privacy and the Limits of Law | Yale Law Journal | 1980 | 460 |
| 15 | Toward a Theory of Effective Supranational Adjudication | Yale Law Journal | 1997 | 446 |
| 16 | Beyond the Republican Revival | Yale Law Journal | 1988 | 444 |
| 17 | Against Settlement | Yale Law Journal | 1984 | 429 |
| 18 | The New Property | Yale Law Journal | 1964 | 419 |
| 19 | Federalism and Corporate Law: Reflections upon Delaware | Yale Law Journal | 1974 | 413 |
| 20 | Filling Gaps in Incomplete Contracts: An Economic Theory of Default Rules | Yale Law Journal | 1989 | 376 |
| 21 | The Two Western Cultures of Privacy: Dignity versus Liberty | Yale Law Journal | 2004 | 365 |
| 22 | The Rise of Dispersed Ownership: The Roles of Law and the State in the Separation of Ownership and Control | Yale Law Journal | 2001 | 361 |
| 23 | Corporations and Human Rights: A Theory of Legal Responsibility | Yale Law Journal | 2001 | 359 |
| 24 | Property in Land | Yale Law Journal | 1993 | 355 |
| 25 | Law's Republic | Yale Law Journal | 1988 | 330 |
| 26 | Toward Unlimited Shareholder Liability for Corporate Torts | Yale Law Journal | 1991 | 321 |
| 27 | Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of Torts | Yale Law Journal | 1961 | 309 |
| 28 | The Essential Role of Organizational Law | Yale Law Journal | 2000 | 308 |
| 29 | Locally Undesirable Land Uses in Minority Neighborhoods: Disproportionate Siting or Market Dynamics? | Yale Law Journal | 1994 | 298 |
| 30 | Overriding Supreme Court Statutory Interpretation Decisions | Yale Law Journal | 1991 | 293 |
| 31 | Judicial Partisanship and Obedience to Legal Doctrine: Whistleblowing on the Federal Courts of Appeals | Yale Law Journal | 1998 | 286 |
| 32 | Deliberative Trouble? Why Groups Go to Extremes | Yale Law Journal | 2000 | 279 |
| 33 | Unpacking the Court | Yale Law Journal | 1986 | 262 |
| 34 | Anticompetitive Exclusion: Raising Rivals' Costs to Achieve Power over Price | Yale Law Journal | 1986 | 262 |
| 35 | Police Discretion Not to Invoke the Criminal Process: Low-Visibility Decisions in the Administration of Justice | Yale Law Journal | 1960 | 259 |
| 36 | Legal Principles and the Limits of Law | Yale Law Journal | 1972 | 258 |
| 37 | The Historic Background of Corporate Legal Personality | Yale Law Journal | 1926 | 254 |
| 38 | The Emergency Constitution | Yale Law Journal | 2004 | 246 |
| 39 | Is There a Prima Facie Obligation to Obey the Law? | Yale Law Journal | 1973 | 239 |
| 40 | Optimal Standardization in the Law of Property: The Numerus Clausus Principle | Yale Law Journal | 2000 | 238 |
| 41 | The Untenable Case for Chapter 11 | Yale Law Journal | 1992 | 237 |
| 42 | What Price Contract?. An Essay in Perspective | Yale Law Journal | 1931 | 234 |
| 43 | Contract Theory and the Limits of Contract Law | Yale Law Journal | 2003 | 234 |
| 44 | Understanding the Japanese Keiretsu: Overlaps between Corporate Governance and Industrial Organization | Yale Law Journal | 1993 | 220 |
| 45 | The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages: 1 | Yale Law Journal | 1936 | 219 |
| 46 | "The Rule of Love": Wife Beating as Prerogative and Privacy | Yale Law Journal | 1996 | 219 |
| 47 | Voices of America: Accent, Antidiscrimination Law, and a Jurisprudence for the Last Reconstruction | Yale Law Journal | 1991 | 217 |
| 48 | Some Differences in Corporate Structure in Germany, Japan, and the United States | Yale Law Journal | 1993 | 217 |
| 49 | The Mediation Alternative: Process Dangers for Women | Yale Law Journal | 1991 | 216 |
| 50 | What Happened to Property in Law and Economics? | Yale Law Journal | 2001 | 216 |
