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46 Vand. L. Rev. 561 (1993)
Statistical Adjudication: Rights, Justice, and Utility in a World of Process Scarcity

handle is hein.journals/vanlr46 and id is 575 raw text is: Statistical Adjudication: Rights, Justice, and Utility in a World of Process Scarcity Robert G. Bone* I. INTRODUCTION .......................................... 563 II. SAMPLING IN PERSPECTIVE: JUST How RADICAL IS IT? ... 569 A. Sampling Compared to the Class Action ........ 569 B. Sampling Compared to Mass Tort Settlements... 574 III. SAMPLING WITHIN AN OUTCOME-ORIENTED VIEW ........ 576 A. The Direct Effects of Sampling on Outcome Accu- racy .......................................... 577 1. The Sample Average as a Measure of True D am ages ................................ 577 2. Linear Regression Over a Sample as a Mea- sure of True Damages .................... 584 B. The Indirect Effects of Sampling on Outcome Ac- curacy ........................................ 587 C. The Case for Sampling ........................ 594 1. An Efficiency-Based Analysis .............. 595 2. A Rights-Based Analysis .................. 598 a. The Standard Arguments ........... 600 i. The Consent Argument ......... 600 ii. The Baseline Argument ......... 603 iii. The Net Recovery Argument .... 604 b. The Argument From Rights ......... 605 i. The Moral Rights Conception ... 605 ii. The Legal Rights Conception .... 615 IV. SAMPLING WITHIN A PROCESS-ORIENTED VIEW .......... 617 A. The Standard Arguments ...................... 622 1. The Consent Argument ................. *622 2. The Psychological Argument .............. 625 * Professor of Law, Boston University. B.A. 1973, Stanford University; J.D. 1978, Harvard University. I wish to thank Jason Johnston, Rick Marcus, Steve Marks, Glen Robinson, Tom Rowe, Larry Sager, Ken Simons, and Carl Tobias for reading and commenting on earlier drafts, and John Giusti for his invaluable research assistance.

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