702 F. Supp. 684 - Refco, Inc. v. Troika Investment Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2006
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Semegen v. Weidner · Tomera v. Galt · 113 Ill. App. 3d 580 - Frahm v. Urkovich · Wayne Investment, Inc. v. Gulf Oil Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although familiar phrases too often tend to lose their real meanings through sheer rote repetition, both “information” and “belief’ are well-understood concepts that should be applied in their normal sense. It is surely understandable that a pleader’s right to allege something “on information and belief’ should be conditioned on the pleader’s identification of the facts — the “information” — on which the asserted belief is based.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even in the most limited type of agency--the nondiscretionary account where the broker is simply called on to carry out its principal's orders--the concept of faithfulness to duty (what the law labels a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]t most [the plaintiff] had a duty to make sure the [defendant's] transactions were duly carried out.”
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.