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The Business of State Supreme Courts, Revisited

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  • Herbert M. Kritzer
  • Paul Brace
  • Melinda Gann Hall
  • Brent T. Boyea

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In this research note we employ data from the State Supreme Court Data Project to update Kagan et al.'s study of the docket composition of state supreme courts. Our analysis shows that many of the patterns of change described by Kagan et al. continued through the 20th century: debt and real property continued to decline and criminal continued to increase. However, other patterns of change either reversed or halted. Specifically, neither torts nor family cases have continued to increase; torts have stabilized and family cases, rather than increasing, have declined. The most surprising shift is the sharp increase in “other contract,” which had no particular pattern in the earlier data, but that represented 5 percent or less of the courts' business; in the 1990s, “other contracts” had grown to a level approaching that of public law, and exceeding real property and family and estate cases.

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  • Herbert M. Kritzer & Paul Brace & Melinda Gann Hall & Brent T. Boyea, 2007. "The Business of State Supreme Courts, Revisited," Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 4(2), pages 427-439, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:empleg:v:4:y:2007:i:2:p:427-439
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-1461.2007.00094.x
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