Jones v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
656 F.2d 103 · 1981
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably American National Bank of Jacksonville v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1983), Marram v. Kobrick Offshore Fund, Ltd. (2004)
83 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Patterson v. United States · Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25 · Gray v. United States · Reamer v. Beall · Gregg v. Georgia
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the judge accepts a general verdict in a case containing multiple issues, the verdict is immune from attack only as long as the evidence under each count is sufficient to authorize the result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ware v. Reed, 709 F.2d 345 , 355 (5th Cir. 1983); Wood v. Diamond M Drilling Co., 691 F.2d 1165 (5th Cir.1982); J.C. Motor Lines, Inc. v. Trailways Bus System, Inc., 689 F.2d 599 (5th Cir.1982); Jones v. Miles, 656 F.2d 103 , 106 n. 3 (5th Cir.1981); Guidry v. Kem Mfg. Co., 598 F.2d 402 , 403, 405-06 (5th Cir. 1979); Nardone v. Reynolds, 538 F.2d 1131 , 1137 n. 16 (5th Cir.1976); reh’g denied, 546 F.2d 906 (1977); Jamison Co. v. Westvaco Corp., 526 F.2d 922 , 934-35 (5th Cir.) reh’g denied, 530 F.2d 34 (1976); Kestenbaum v. Falstaff Brewing Corp., 514 F.2d 690 , 693-94 (5th Cir.1975), cert. denied, 424 U.S. 943 , 96 S.Ct. 1412 , 47 L.Ed.2d 349 (1976); Simmons v. King, 478 F.2d 857 , 862 n. 12 (5th Cir.1973); Burns v. Anchor-Wate Co., 469 F.2d 730 , 734 n. 8 (5th Cir.1972); In re Double D Dredging Co., 467 F.2d 468 , 469 (5th Cir.1972); Bailey v. Kawasaki-Kisen, K.K., 455 F.2d 392 , 394 (5th Cir.1972). See generally Brown, Federal Special Verdicts: The Doubt Eliminator, 44 F.R.D. 338 (1967).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An affirmative defense which is not pleaded is generally deemed waived.... Even so, in practice an affirmative defense is not waived to the extent that the party who should have pled the defense introduces evidence in support thereof without objection by the adverse party ....”
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.