Industrialization pushed big business out of regular contract litigation

Evidence

So far, an intelligent judge could manage very well. He was probably a landowner himself; the cases that came before him were not so distant from his common experience. As the country industrialized, this was less and less the case. By 1905, the contract docket of the Wisconsin supreme court looked very different. … It is a plausible guess that large businesses did not litigate contract issues in any regular way. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3066

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The practice of law shifted from courtroom litigation to transactional work — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3621; Nineteenth-century courts shifted tort law toward negligence to favor industrial growth — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3405

Broader Connections

• The practice of law shifted from courtroom litigation to transactional work #expands (0.85) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3621
• Nineteenth-century courts shifted tort law toward negligence to favor industrial growth #qualifies (0.72) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3405