- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- The Rule of Law in America
- An Exceptional Nation?
- Are Americans More Litigious?
- Lawyers as Spam
- Regulation and Litigation
- Does Product Liability Law Make Us Safer?
- The American Illness and Comparative Civil Procedure
- The Proportionality Principle and the Amount In Controversy
- The Allocation of Discovery Costs and the Foundations of Modern Procedure
- Does Increased Litigation Increase Justice in a Second-Best World?
- A Tamer Tort Law
- The Expansion of Modern U.S. Tort Law and Its Excesses
- Regulation, Taxation, and Litigation
- An English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law
- Text versus Context
- Exit and the American Illness
- The Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law
- How American Corporate and Securities Law Drives Business Offshore
- Corporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality
- The Legacy of Progressive Thought
- Overtaking
- The Rule of Law and China
- Reversing
- Contributors
- Index
Are Americans More Litigious?
Are Americans More Litigious?
Some Quantitative Evidence
- Chapter:
- (p.69) Are Americans More Litigious?
- Source:
- The American Illness
- Author(s):
J. Mark Ramseyer
Eric B. Rasmusen
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
Americans sue more frequently than citizens do elsewhere, as evidenced by its per capita litigation rates. This chapter asks whether Americans are beset with litigation crisis. It examines the problems involved in this question and explores some quantitative evidence in state court litigation by turning to the number of civil suits filed in America.
Keywords: litigation rates, Americans, litigation crisis, litigation, state court, civil suits, America
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- The Rule of Law in America
- An Exceptional Nation?
- Are Americans More Litigious?
- Lawyers as Spam
- Regulation and Litigation
- Does Product Liability Law Make Us Safer?
- The American Illness and Comparative Civil Procedure
- The Proportionality Principle and the Amount In Controversy
- The Allocation of Discovery Costs and the Foundations of Modern Procedure
- Does Increased Litigation Increase Justice in a Second-Best World?
- A Tamer Tort Law
- The Expansion of Modern U.S. Tort Law and Its Excesses
- Regulation, Taxation, and Litigation
- An English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law
- Text versus Context
- Exit and the American Illness
- The Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law
- How American Corporate and Securities Law Drives Business Offshore
- Corporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality
- The Legacy of Progressive Thought
- Overtaking
- The Rule of Law and China
- Reversing
- Contributors
- Index