DiRussa v. Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.3d 818 · 1997
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 13 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Dh Blair Co Inc Dh v. Gottdiener Dh J (2006), Duferco International Steel Trading v. T. Klaveness Shipping A/S (2003)
46 federal appellate · 13 district · 19 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 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 9 U.S.C. § 10 (Federal Arbitration Act)
Relies on United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · First Options of Chicago, Inc. v. Kaplan · United Paperworkers International Union v. Misco, 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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the arbitrators knew of a governing legal principle yet refused to apply it or ignored it altogether and (2) the law ignored by the arbitrators ... [was] well defined, explicit, and clearly applicable.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he term `disregard' implies that the arbitrator appreciates the existence of a clearly governing legal principle but decides to ignore or pay no attention to it.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“focuses on whether the arbitrator[ ] had the power, based on the parties' submissions or the arbitration agreement, to reach a certain issue, not whether the arbitrator[ ] correctly decided that issue.”
4 later decisions 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.