Bonebrake v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 951 · 1974
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 13 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Ross-Simons of Warwick, Inc. v. Baccarat, Inc. (1996), White v. Peabody Construction Co., Inc. (1982)
39 federal appellate · 13 district · 89 state decisions — followed in 33 states
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 Perlmutter v. Beth David Hospital · Lewis v. Mobil Oil Corp. · Boeing Airplane Co. v. O'Malley · Worrell v. Barnes
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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test for inclusion or exclusion is not whether they are mixed but, granting that they are mixed, whether their predominant factor, their thrust, their purpose, reasonably stated, is the rendition of service, with goods incidentally involved (e.g., contract with artist for painting) or is a transaction of sale, with labor incidentally involved (e.g., installation of a water heater in a bathroom).”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage“all things (including specially manufactured goods) which are movable at the time of identification to the contract for sale.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage““[T]he fact that the Code has eliminated the technical rigors of the notice requirement under the Uniform Sales Act does not require the conclusion that any expression of discontent by a buyer always satisfies section 2-607. As Comment 4 indicates, a buyer’s conduct under section 2-607 must satisfy the Code’s standard of commercial good faith. Thus, while the buyer must inform the seller that the transaction is ‘still troublesome,’ Comment 4 also requires that the notification ‘be such as informs the seller that the transaction is claimed to involve a breach, and thus opens the way to normal settlement through negotiation.’ ” Id. at 976 .”
3 later decisions 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.