Bone v. Refco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
774 F.2d 235 · 1985
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Katara v. De Jones Commodities Inc O, Carden v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1988)
15 federal appellate · 1 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. § 636
Relies on Gray v. United States · Morrissey v. National Maritime Union of America · Doherty v. American Motors Corp. · Jones v. Miles · C. & A. Construction Co. v. Benning Construction 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may enable an appellate court to salvage the portions of the verdict on the claims or theories properly submitted, thereby foregoing the unnecessary inconvenience, expense, and burden on the judicial system and the parties that results from having to retry the entire case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Had Bone's claims been submitted on special verdicts, we could simply have stricken the award on the [improper] claim and affirmed the judgment on the other claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that when one of two theories has erroneously been submitted to the jury a general verdict cannot stand.”
1 later decision 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.