Contract lawsuits per 1,000 businesses, by state (2024)

All ranked states. Filings normalized against each state's business base. ^* New York, mapped from its own court data.

#	State	Per 1k biz	Per 1k pop	2020 filings	2024 filings	5-yr change	CAGR
1	Maryland	3,359	76.6	353,467	478,536	+35%	7.9%
2	New Jersey	1,936	48.4	268,293	459,722	+71%	14.4%
3	Nevada	1,922	45.1	70,285	146,844	+109%	20.2%
4	Georgia	1,750	40.4	250,952	452,281	+80%	15.9%
5	Nebraska	1,702	47.8	78,614	95,857	+22%	5.1%
6	Kentucky	1,571	32.0	100,288	146,924	+46%	10.0%
7	Indiana	1,541	34.2	112,116	236,926	+111%	20.6%
8	Alabama	1,508	30.7	109,505	158,423	+45%	9.7%
9	Arizona	1,407	29.8	148,846	224,940	+51%	10.9%
10	Missouri	1,380	34.0	142,208	212,253	+49%	10.5%
11	Rhode Island	1,317	35.0	30,737	38,831	+26%	6.0%
12	Utah	932	24.9	62,143	87,310	+40%	8.9%
13	Michigan	897	20.2	112,782	204,460	+81%	16.0%
14	North Dakota	804	25.4	14,562	20,190	+39%	8.5%
15	District of Columbia	774	26.7	—	18,471	—	—
16	New Mexico	751	15.8	—	33,666	—	—
17	Delaware	742	20.6	21,084	21,665	+3%	0.7%
18	New York^*	674	18.3	—	364,412	—	—
19	Pennsylvania	668	15.8	95,592	205,411	+115%	21.1%
20	Texas	666	14.0	242,938	437,823	+80%	15.9%
21	Wyoming	654	25.9	—	15,164	—	—
22	Connecticut	550	13.4	23,036	49,078	+113%	20.8%
23	Iowa	466	12.1	25,425	38,976	+53%	11.3%
24	Massachusetts	359	9.2	28,340	65,741	+132%	23.4%
25	Wisconsin	324	7.9	38,883	46,806	+20%	4.7%
26	Alaska	314	9.4	5,314	6,942	+31%	6.9%
27	South Carolina	299	6.6	25,896	36,097	+39%	8.7%
28	Florida	290	7.9	132,828	183,643	+38%	8.4%
29	Puerto Rico	275	4.2	6,965	13,576	+95%	18.2%
30	New Hampshire	269	7.5	7,274	10,570	+45%	9.8%
31	Illinois	254	6.5	—	82,034	—	—
32	Maine	220	6.8	6,364	9,519	+50%	10.6%
33	Vermont	191	6.2	3,570	3,987	+12%	2.8%
34	Idaho	146	4.2	—	8,337	—	—
35	Minnesota	140	3.7	11,645	21,656	+86%	16.8%

Source: DocsGenie Research · Data: NCSC Court Statistics Project & U.S. Census. Reporting states only; not a national total.