Abstract
Priest and Klein's seminal 1984 article argued that litigated cases differ systematically and predictably from settled cases. This article tests the Priest-Klein selection model using a data set of thirteenth-century English cases. These cases are especially informative because juries rendered verdicts even in settled cases, so one can directly compare verdicts in settled and litigated cases. The results are consistent with the predictions of the Priest-Klein article, as well as with the asymmetric-information selection models developed by Hylton and Shavell.
Disciplines
Courts | Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | Law and Economics | Legal History, Theory and Process
Date of this Version
July 2011
Recommended Citation
Daniel M. Klerman, "The Selection of Thirteenth-Century Disputes for Litigation" (July 2011). University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series. Working Paper 80.
http://law.bepress.com/usclwps-lss/art80
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