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exclusive statutory remedy

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 285 U.S. 467 - Shriver v. Woodbine Savings Bank · 1932Most cited · 71 citing opinions

where a statute creates a liability and provides a remedy by suit specially adapted to its enforcement, other less appropriate common-law remedies are impliedly excluded

How often courts cite the case defining “exclusive statutory remedy”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “exclusive statutory remedy” — 71 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.