Huge Influence of Legal Blog On Supreme Court Justices and Obamacare

I have read and linked for years the legal blog Volokh Conspiracy . There was a nice write up at the Atlantic after the Supreme Court 's oral arguments on Obamacare how much this influence this blog had , and how the influence of legal blogs might be increasing. See the response of Volokh guys here at Crediting/Blaming the VC for the Possible Defeat of the Individual Mandate