History
The term achieved renown when coined by Stan V. Smith (economist) during his testimony, the first such testimony proffered nationwide, in the case of Sherrod v. Berry, 827 F.2d 195 (7th Cir. 1987). It has since been in widespread use in subsequent legal decisions, in law review articles, and in law and economics articles nationwide. See for example Professon Cass Sunstein's University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 340, July 2007. Such testimony has been admitted in state and federal court hundreds of times nationwide, increasingly gaining acceptance over the past decade, since 2000.
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