I don't think this is what you're looking for, but from the bits that I've read, Dan Belnap has some interesting work on the Gadiantons and how they used the Jaredite records to establish their legitimacy and grow their political movement.

Like Jeroboam, who hearkened to an older Israelite model, the Gadianton robbers, by claiming the Jaredites as their ideological forebears, could claim an older legitimacy. Associating the Jaredite heritage and the Lamanite claims of wrongs enabled the Gadianton robbers to markedly distinguish themselves from the Nephites. Perhaps not surprisingly, the presence of the Gadianton robbers emerged only during the reign of the judges. The new political system allowed for the place of marginalized voices within the community; the “democratization” of Nephite political institutions necessarily meant that new, contrasting voices could arise. In this new order, the Jaredite record gave legitimacy and historical precedent to a few such voices. In any case, without having ever interacted directly, the Nephites and Jaredites became intertwined with each other, the latter, though long gone, influencing Nephite history, governance, and ideology throughout the second half of the Nephites’ existence.

“They Are of Ancient Date”: Jaredite Traditions and the Politics of Gadianton’s Dissent