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 - Very difficult to understandIf you must use this book for class, save yourself a lot of headache and get Emanuel's Outline or flashcards on the subject or Gilbert's Outline. This book is very difficult reading compared to my other other law books. Law professors should really stay away from it. Rating:  - Easy and InterestingI am astounded at the previous reviews of this case book. The typos, though present, do nothing to detract from it's purpose - to deliver brief and interesting cases that explain torts in a sensible and logical order. This book is a pleasure to read, and it CERTAINLY is not diffcult to understand. It is in fact the clearest and most vibrant law text I've encountered. Students having trouble finding the majority opinion need to read the whole case; those not understanding the order of the tort law presentation need to read the entire book. Rating:  - Horrific editing!!!I concur with my fellow reviewers that this Casebook contains more typos and grammaticla errors than a first-grader's book-report!! If your Torts prof is excellent (and mine was) such editorial problems won't keep you from getting a good grade. But, to be sure, buy the Examples and Explanations by Glannon and a good commercial outline to supplement this POOR casebook! Finally, I wholeheartedly agree with one of the reviewers who indicated that this casebook is VERY much biased towards the plaintiff's bar and against defendents, businesses, or "the MAN". Rating: - Awful, awful bookThis book really is badly edited. There are entire pages that lack punctuation. It's difficult enough to master torts without struggling through the basic grammar. The book also is very case heavy and explanation light. Those reading it had better hope for an excellent torts prof! Rating: - Editorial confusionI feel really sorry for the student assistants that got credit in the front of Dobb's book for their careful editing. This book has more typos in it than any thing I have ever seen. And if Torts law was not hard enough to understand, having to work within Dobbs sorry typos makes it that much harder. Content wise, the book just does not lay out Torts in any logical order. It is just too hard from this book to pull out what the rule is and whether a case represents the majority view or a minority. Defense arguments against recovery tend to get far less coverage than the plaintiff viewpoint: That much is obvious from the books' subtitle. Overall, it is required that you use a study supplement with this book. I recommend "Understanding Torts" by Larry Levine, et al. Don't buy this book unless some sadistic professor is forcing you too.
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