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Probabilities of Small Claims Judgment Satisfaction and Factors Influencing Success
Author(s) -
BONNER PATRICIA A.,
METZEN EDWARD J.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of consumer affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.582
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1745-6606
pISSN - 0022-0078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6606.1993.tb00738.x
Subject(s) - plaintiff , judgement , summary judgment , psychology , law , actuarial science , social psychology , business , political science
A claim adjudicated in small claims court is substantively not resolved until the judgement rendered has been received by the winning plaintiff. Using data from the Boone County, Missouri, Small Claims Court, this study found that one‐half of the winning claims were collected in full. Differences in collection success were more closely related to the judgment amount and characteristics of the defendant than to characteristics of the plaintiff.