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Presently cited over 300 times according to Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?cites=18129095207210817294...

It's like an academic equivalent of a software patent on an existing idea.

Incidentally, I was looking into these citations yesterday and many are serious ones. Which is worrying.

Someone pointed out that most of them probably cited as a joke, like in the legal field where they cite ridiculous lawsuit names ("The United States of America vs Satan")

Yeah, they're not serious citations. They're either criticisms or jokes. I've heard that it's become a bit of a meme.

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