Great Coastal Express, Inc. v. INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN & HELPERS OF AMERICA’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 839 · 1975
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Spell v. McDaniel (1987), Dowling v. City of Philadelphia (1988)
41 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Lavender v. Kurn · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. · Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could only have been a sympathy or compromise verdict ... [b]ut where there is no substantial indication that the liability and damage issues are inextricably interwoven ... a second trial limited to damages is entirely proper.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“". . . [T]he responsibility of a union for the acts of its members and officers is to be measured by reference to ordinary doctrines of agency . . ." 383 U.S. 715, 736 , 86 S.Ct. 1130, 1144 , 16 L.Ed.2d 218, 234 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Turning now to the issue of whether a partial new trial was appropriate, we note that such is expressly permitted by F.R.Civ.P. 59(a). The principal case with respect to ordering a new trial as to damages only is Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Co., 283 U.S. 494 , 51 S.Ct. 513 , 75 L.Ed. 1188 (1931). The court, in Gasoline Products, held “that, here the requirement of a jury trial has been satisfied by a verdict according to law upon one issue of fact, that requirement does not compel a new trial of that issue even though another and separable issue must be tried again.” 283 U.S. at 499 , 51 S.Ct. at 515 .... The matter of a partial new trial has been frequently considered since Gasoline Products and its subsequent articulation in F.R.Civ.P. 59(a), and one of the leading texts states that it “may be regarded as settled that if an error at the trial requires a new trial on one issue, but this issue is separate from the other issue in the case and the error did not affect the determination of the other issues, the scope of the new trial may be limited to the single issue.” 11 Wright & Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure, Civil (1973), p. 93; see also Moore’s Federal Practice, 2nd Ed., 1974, ¶ 59.06.”
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.