Legal precedent

Landes, W. M., & Posner, R. A. (1976). Legal precedent: A theoretical and empirical analysis. Journal of Law and Economics, 19(2), 249-307.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1976

Volume

19

Issue

2

Pages

249-307

DOI registrant

University of Chicago Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.1086/466868 not authoritativefound

Cited from

law_governance

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Primes

• Precedent (Stare Decisis)
  • The system amortizes decision effort across time, a cost-economy property Landes and Posner (1976) formalize in their economic analysis treating precedent as a capital stock of legal information.

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