The Business Of State Supreme Courts Case Study

The court system, also known as the judiciary, is a structure that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state. As such, there are multiple divisions and even more types of cases. The classifications of cases that are typically seen within the courts are: debt, contract, property, corporate, torts, criminal, public law, and family and estates. Over the years, different types of cases have appeared before the court, some most often than others. In Herbert M. Kritzer, Paul Brace, Melinda Gann Hall, and Brent T. Boya’s research, they looked to study the trends of case type over time. Within the article, “The Business of State Supreme Courts, Revisited”, the composition of cases from the 1870s is characterized as a focus of lawsuits involving debt and real property, which then transitions in the late 1990s, into a concentration of proceedings encompassing the criminal and tort classification. The particular changes that are most noteworthy are from cases involving tort, contracts, real property, and family and estates. Each of these changes are different, as such, there is a mix of acceleration and deceleration …show more content…
The kind of evidence that should be sought out to construct a narrative account of why the changes in the business of the courts have occurred needs to be data from each category case. There should be research based upon societal changes, such as new laws, or political ideologies, the insertion of new industries and their effects, even the study of different people will enable a narrative to be formed. When all of this additional, outside contributor information is provided, then it will become clearer as to how the business of courts evolved. The inner-workings of the judiciary system is fairly accounted for in this research as it revolved around the types of cases and dockets received over time within the