Simula, Inc. v. Autoliv, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.3d 716 · 1999
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 22 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Chiron Corporation v. Ortho Diagnostic Systems Inc (2000), Ticknor v. Choice Hotels International, Inc. (2001)
28 federal appellate · 22 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. · Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd · Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon
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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'arising in connection with' reaches every dispute between the parties having a significant relationship to the contract and all disputes having their origin or genesis in the contract”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If any suit or proceeding be brought in any of the courts of the United States upon any issue referable to arbitration under an agreement in writing for such arbitration, the court in which such suit is pending, upon being satisfied that the issue involved in such suit or proceeding is referable to arbitration under such an agreement, shall on application of one of the parties stay the trial of the action until such arbitration has been had in accordance with the terms of the agreement, providing the applicant for the stay is not in default in proceeding with such arbitration.”
3 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.