| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Structure and Process, Politics and Policy: Administrative Arrangements and the Political Control of Agencies | Virginia Law Review | 1989 | 1,042 |
| 2 | A Team Production Theory of Corporate Law | Virginia Law Review | 1999 | 768 |
| 3 | The Rise of World Constitutionalism | Virginia Law Review | 1997 | 280 |
| 4 | Public Research and Private Development: Patents and Technology Transfer in Government-Sponsored Research | Virginia Law Review | 1996 | 274 |
| 5 | Market Failure and the Economic Case for a Mandatory Disclosure System | Virginia Law Review | 1984 | 265 |
| 6 | Social Influence, Social Meaning, and Deterrence | Virginia Law Review | 1997 | 247 |
| 7 | The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency | Virginia Law Review | 1984 | 233 |
| 8 | A Focal Point Theory of Expressive Law | Virginia Law Review | 2000 | 211 |
| 9 | Environmental Regulation, Ideology, and the D. C. Circuit | Virginia Law Review | 1997 | 194 |
| 10 | Principles of Relational Contracts | Virginia Law Review | 1981 | 188 |
| 11 | Corporations, Corporate Law, and Networks of Contracts | Virginia Law Review | 1995 | 188 |
| 12 | Mandatory Disclosure and the Protection of Investors | Virginia Law Review | 1984 | 186 |
| 13 | Law and Social Norms: The Case of Tax Compliance | Virginia Law Review | 2000 | 186 |
| 14 | Does Federalism Preserve Markets? | Virginia Law Review | 1997 | 165 |
| 15 | Standardization and Innovation in Corporate Contracting (Or "The Economics of Boilerplate") | Virginia Law Review | 1997 | 160 |
| 16 | Critical Race Theory: An Annotated Bibliography | Virginia Law Review | 1993 | 150 |
| 17 | Insider Trading and the Stock Market | Virginia Law Review | 1967 | 147 |
| 18 | The Political Economy of Takeover Statutes | Virginia Law Review | 1987 | 142 |
| 19 | Policy Levers in Patent Law | Virginia Law Review | 2003 | 134 |
| 20 | Some Effects of Uncertainty on Compliance with Legal Standards | Virginia Law Review | 1984 | 129 |
| 21 | Do Good Laws Make Good Citizens? An Economic Analysis of Internalized Norms | Virginia Law Review | 2000 | 127 |
| 22 | The Exchange as Regulator | Virginia Law Review | 1997 | 125 |
| 23 | Procreative Liberty and the Control of Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth | Virginia Law Review | 1983 | 120 |
| 24 | Commentary on "Administrative Arrangements and the Political Control of Agencies": Administrative Process and Organizational Form as Legislative Responses to Agency Costs | Virginia Law Review | 1989 | 120 |
| 25 | Ideological Voting on Federal Courts of Appeals: A Preliminary Investigation | Virginia Law Review | 2004 | 120 |
| 26 | Economic Analysis of Law: Some Realism about Nominalism | Virginia Law Review | 1974 | 119 |
| 27 | Civic Virtue and the Feminine Voice in Constitutional Adjudication | Virginia Law Review | 1986 | 117 |
| 28 | The Sound of Silence: Default Rules and Contractual Consent | Virginia Law Review | 1992 | 110 |
| 29 | When a Story Is Just a Story: Does Voice Really Matter? | Virginia Law Review | 1990 | 108 |
| 30 | Reasoning about Sodomy: Act and Identity in and after Bowers v. Hardwick | Virginia Law Review | 1993 | 108 |
| 31 | Agenda Influence and Its Implications | Virginia Law Review | 1977 | 107 |
| 32 | Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review | Virginia Law Review | 1981 | 104 |
| 33 | On the Nature of Bankruptcy: An Essay on Bankruptcy Sharing and the Creditors' Bargain | Virginia Law Review | 1989 | 100 |
| 34 | Control Rights, Priority Rights, and the Conceptual Foundations of Corporate Reorganizations | Virginia Law Review | 2001 | 98 |
| 35 | Understanding the Constitutional Revolution | Virginia Law Review | 2001 | 97 |
| 36 | Our Two Corporation Systems: Law and Economics | Virginia Law Review | 1967 | 96 |
| 37 | Efficient Breach of Contract: Circles in the Sky | Virginia Law Review | 1982 | 95 |
| 38 | On Owning Information: Intellectual Property and the Restitutionary Impulse | Virginia Law Review | 1992 | 92 |
| 39 | The Passing of Dual Federalism | Virginia Law Review | 1950 | 91 |
| 40 | The Relation between Procedural and Distributive Justice | Virginia Law Review | 1979 | 90 |
| 41 | Social Frameworks: A New Use of Social Science in Law | Virginia Law Review | 1987 | 87 |
| 42 | Platonic Love and Colorado Law: The Relevance of Ancient Greek Norms to Modern Sexual Controversies | Virginia Law Review | 1994 | 87 |
| 43 | The Landscape of Constitutional Property | Virginia Law Review | 2000 | 86 |
| 44 | Half a Century of International Law | Virginia Law Review | 1964 | 85 |
| 45 | Rethinking the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Revolutions | Virginia Law Review | 1996 | 81 |
| 46 | Retaining Mandatory Securities Disclosure: Why Issuer Choice Is Not Investor Empowerment | Virginia Law Review | 1999 | 81 |
| 47 | Politics without Romance: Implications of Public Choice Theory for Statutory Interpretation | Virginia Law Review | 1988 | 77 |
| 48 | The Death of Copyright: Digital Technology, Private Copying, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act | Virginia Law Review | 2001 | 75 |
| 49 | Good Economics. Bad Law | Virginia Law Review | 1974 | 73 |
| 50 | We Will Get What We Ask for: Why Legalizing Gay and Lesbian Marriage Will Not "Dismantle the Legal Structure of Gender in Every Marriage" | Virginia Law Review | 1993 | 73 |
