108 N.C. App. 268 - Routh v. Snap-On Tools Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Tillman v. Commercial Credit Loans, Inc. (2008), 162 N.C. App. 457 - Slaughter v. Swicegood (2004)
68 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 Root v. Allstate Insurance Company · Henderson County v. Osteen · Normile v. Miller · 102 N.C. App. 255 - Prime South Homes, Inc. v. Byrd · Robbins v. C. W. Myers Trading Post, Inc.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he party seeking arbitration must show that the parties mutually agreed to arbitrate their disputes.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial court's findings regarding the existence of an arbitration agreement are conclusive on appeal where supported by competent evidence, even where the evidence might have supported findings to the contrary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“burden of establishing an agreement to arbitrate.”
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.