Brunecz v. DiLeo’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1997
21 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 Pat Perusse Realty Co. v. Lingo · De Maio v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company · Wooddy v. Wooddy · Penn Central Co. v. Buffalo Spring & Equipment Co. · Bynum v. Warden
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the DiLeos throughout the proceeding seem to have conceded that the house was built on lot 5, and Mr. DiLeo confirmed this in his sworn deposition, it would appear that they are estopped by record or estopped judicially from challenging the validity of the lien insofar as it applies to lot 5.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nothing contained in this article [Mechanics’ Lien Law] shall be construed to affect the right of any person to whom any debt may be due for work done or materials furnished to maintain any personal action against the owner of the building or any other person liable therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.