Torts - Cases, Principles, and Institutions Fifth Edition, 2016a

Witt & Tani, TCPI
Smith v. Sneller ................................................................................................................ 137
Davis v. Feinstein ............................................................................................................. 138
Notes ............................................................................................................................ 139
3. Children ...................................................................................................................... 142
Dellwo v. Pearson ............................................................................................................ 142
Notes ............................................................................................................................ 144
4. Mental Illness ............................................................................................................. 147
Breunig v. American Family Ins. Co. .............................................................................. 147
Notes ............................................................................................................................ 149
Gould v. American Family Mut. Ins. Co. ........................................................................ 150
Notes ............................................................................................................................ 151
5. Unreasonable Faiths? .................................................................................................. 153
6. Sex and Gender: The Reasonable Woman? ............................................................... 154
B. Cost / Benefit Calculations and the Learned Hand Formula .................................. 158
1. Negligence Basics ...................................................................................................... 159
Stone v. Bolton ................................................................................................................. 159
Bolton v. Stone ................................................................................................................. 160
Notes ............................................................................................................................ 162
United States v. Carroll Towing Co. ................................................................................ 162
Notes ............................................................................................................................ 164
2. Critiques of Cost-Benefit Reasoning .......................................................................... 167
Critiques from First Principles ......................................................................................... 167
Critiques from Distributive Justice .................................................................................. 169
Critiques from Administrability ....................................................................................... 170
A Precautionary Alternative? ........................................................................................... 170
Kysar’s Constructivist Critique ........................................................................................ 171
3. In Defense of Cost-Benefit Reasoning ....................................................................... 171
Robert H. Frank, Why is Cost-Benefit Analysis so Controversial? ................................. 171
Cass Sunstein, Cognition and Cost-Benefit Analysis ...................................................... 172
Cass Sunstein, Moral Heuristics ...................................................................................... 173
4. The Logic of Cost-Benefit .......................................................................................... 174
Cooley v. Public Service Co. ........................................................................................... 174
Notes ............................................................................................................................ 176
Andrews v. United Airlines ............................................................................................. 181
Note .............................................................................................................................. 183
5. Claim Resolution in the Real World .......................................................................... 183
Rules of Thumb in Auto Collision Cases......................................................................... 183
The Failure of No-Fault Auto .......................................................................................... 185
C. Judges and Juries ......................................................................................................... 185
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. v. Goodman .................................................................. 186
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR., THE COMMON LAW 111, 123-4 (1881) .......................... 186
Notes ............................................................................................................................ 187
Pokora v. Wabash Railroad Co. ....................................................................................... 188
Notes ............................................................................................................................ 190
D. Custom .......................................................................................................................... 196
1. The Basic Rule—and Its Functions ............................................................................ 196
The T.J. Hooper ............................................................................................................... 196
Notes ............................................................................................................................ 197