Building a Taxonomy of Litigation: Clusters of Causes of Action in Federal Complaints

被引：18

作者：

Boyd, Christina L. ^{[1
]}

Hoffman, David A. ^{[2
]}

Obradovic, Zoran ^{[3
]}

Ristovski, Kosta ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 USA

[2] Temple Univ, Beasley Sch Law, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA

[3] Temple Univ, Ctr Data Analyt & Biomed Informat, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA

[4] Temple Univ, Dept Comp & Informat Sci, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES | 2013年 / 10卷 / 02期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1111/jels.12010

中图分类号：

D9 [法律]; DF [法律];

学科分类号：

0301 ;

摘要：

This project empirically explores civil litigation from its inception by examining the content of civil complaints. We utilize spectral cluster analysis on a newly compiled federal district court data set of causes of action in complaints to illustrate the relationship of legal claims to one another, the broader composition of lawsuits in trial courts, and the breadth of pleading in individual complaints. Our results shed light not only on the networks of legal theories in civil litigation but also on how lawsuits are classified and the strategies that plaintiffs and their attorneys employ when commencing litigation. This approach permits us to lay the foundation for a more precise and useful taxonomy of federal litigation than has been previously available, one that, after the Supreme Court's recent decisions in Bell Atlantic v. Twombly (2007) and Ashcroft v. Iqbal (2009), has also arguably never been more relevant than it is today.

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页码：253 / 287

页数：35

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