Burchett v. Roncari’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Lashgari v. Lashgari (1985), The Society of Lloyd's v. James Frederick Ashenden (2000)
3 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Ager v. Murray · Greenwich Trust Co. v. Tyson · Pottetti v. Clifford · Krueger v. Krueger · Indemnity Ins. Co. of North America v. Smoot
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An adequate remedy at law is one which is specific and adapted to securing the relief sought conveniently, effectively and completely.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“unless the debt has first been garnisheed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.