Abstract
Focusing on the multiple meanings of the statement "A was a more important cause of C than was B," Professor Strassfeld considers the feasibility of comparative causation as a means of apportioning legal responsibility for harms He concludes that by combining two different interpretations of "more important cause"--judgments of comparative counterfactual similarity and the Uniform Comparative Fault Act approach of comparative responsibility-we can effectively make causal comparisons and avoid the effort to compare such incommensurables as the defendant's fault under a strict liability standard and the plain- tiff's fault for failure to exercise reasonable care
Keywords
Comparative Causation
Publication Date
1992
Document Type
Article
Place of Original Publication
Fordham Law Review
Publication Information
60 Fordham Law Review 913 (1992)
Repository Citation
Strassfeld, Robert N., "Causal Comparisons" (1992). Faculty Publications. 372.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/372
