Burch v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2013
6 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 O'Malley v. Eagan · Thompson v. Byers Transp. Co. · Thompson v. Byers Transportation Co. · Cable v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Coon v. Rieke
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But it is the duty of the court to look after the form and substance of a verdict so as to prevent a doubtful or insufficient finding. 76 Am.Jr.2d Trial § 1208. Here, the verdict was insufficient in that it did not dispose of all issues. But, ‘the court has the power to put a manifestly irregular or defective verdict in such form as to make it conform to the intention of the jury, and carry their findings into effect, where the intention can be ascertained with certainty, from statements of the jurors themselves, ⅜ * or any other clear and satisfactory evidence appearing in the record or the minutes of the trial; * * ⅜.” 89 C.J.S. Trial 515.”
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.