This is based on a Westlaw search, in the JLR database, in mid-July 2002.  Only faculty eligible are faculty listed in the 2001-02 AALS Directory.  Citation counts are rounded to the nearest ten.  There is a rough correlation between total citations and prestige, less of a correlation between total citations and actual quality (I would estimate that a third of the faculty with more than 1,000 citations could not get appointed at Texas, for example).   The lists are heavily dominated by constitutional law scholars, as well as scholars in currently "hot" areas, like Critical Race Theory.  Scholarly areas are described quite broadly; here is what the abbreviations that aren't obvious mean:  Public (including constitutional and administrative law, legislation, civil rights, etc.), Private (including torts, contracts, and property), Crim (including substantive criminal law and criminal procedure), Juris (jurisprudence), Fem Th (feminist legal theory), Crit Race Th (critical race theory), Business (business law areas, including corporate, securities, commercial law, bankruptcy, antitrust, and so on).

(Note:  After #68, there is no data on 2000 rank.)

Representation of Schools in the Top 120