Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
ISSN
2157-9067
Publisher
The Green Bag, Inc
Language
en-US
Abstract
One of the more interesting clauses of the Constitution is the one that gives the Supreme Court original jurisdiction to hear lawsuits brought by one state against another state. These cases have historically made up a consistent, though small, part of the Supreme Court’s docket, but nobody has yet to investigate how the various states have fared in these suits. In this article, we analyze all of the state versus state cases decided over the past 112 years and provide the first ever (we think) official standings of how the states stack up. Minnesota is the big winner.
Recommended Citation
Jay D. Wexler & David Hatton,
The First Ever (Maybe) Original Jurisdiction Standings
,
in
1
Journal of Legal Metrics
19
(2012).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/41
Comments
Boston University School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-05