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Are Americans More Litigious?: Some Quantitative Evidence - Yale Scholarship
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DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300175219.001.0001
Part 2 : Relative Decline
Part 3 : Empirical Evidence
Part 4 : Civil Procedure
Part 5 : Tort Law
Part 6 : Contract Law
Part 7 : Corporate and Securities Law
Part 8 : Criminal Law
Part 9 : How Nations Grow (or Don't)
Part 10 : Changing Course
Some Quantitative Evidence
(p.69) Are Americans More Litigious?
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300175219.003.0003
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