Postwar American legal criticism vastly exceeds earlier eras in quality and scope

Evidence

At the same time, there has never been so much good work of such ambition and scope. Compared to the legal criticism of a century ago-or even half a century ago-the work of American critics and writers since the Second World War is vastly superior (and far more vast), and simply more interesting. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 863

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: whether this judgment of steady improvement holds for other scholarly fields, and how one would measure it.