Corpus Linguistics

In a recent opinion, justice thomas writes about how judges and justices basically have to become historians. He never mentions corpus linguistics, but it's sort of built in here in some sense. Ina: Does this term supreme court opinions make corpus linguistics more important? Are people now, like judges, district court judges, et cetera, going to rely on this moreand if so, how does that work? You have a gazilian cases compared to the supreme court 66. I think perhaps you could make an argument that it foretells the use of corpus linguistics.