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The common perception is that high or growing litigation rates in a country are a sign of societal pathology. Studies … of litigation rates, however, consistently report that lawsuit filings per capita increase with economic prosperity, thus … suggesting that litigation rates are a natural consequence of prosperity and not necessarily evidence of an overly litigious …
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Until recently (e.g., Lindquist 2007), few studies have examined the factors that might affect aspects of judicial efficiency, including the time it takes a court to decide a case. In our analysis of a sample o f U.S. Courts of Appeals decisions from 1971-1996, we examine a variety of potential...
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