Publication Date

1998

Journal

Syracuse Law Review

Abstract

During its first 150 years, the New York Court of Appeals has had more impact on more areas of law than any other court in the United States. Other state courts-the California Supreme Court in the Traynor era, the New Jersey Supreme Court under Chief Justice Weintraub, to take two obvious examples-have had enormous impact, but no other state court has generated leading case after leading case in every decade for 150 years. Federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court, have had an enormous impact on American law, but that impact has been concentrated in public law; no federal court has exerted influence comparable to that of the Court of Appeals over the wide range of problems that confront most Americans in their everyday lives: contracts, torts, property, trusts, wills, divorce law (to name a few).

Volume

48

Issue

4

First Page

1391

Last Page

1452

Publisher

Syracuse University College of Law

Keywords

Appeals, Legal Practice and Procedure, Contracts, Torts, Courts

Disciplines

Contracts | Courts | Law | Torts

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