190 Md. App. 179 - Freedman v. Comcast Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act)
Relies on Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp. · 24 Cal. 4th 83 - Armendariz v. Found. Health Psychcare Servs., Inc. · Lapides v. Board of Regents of Univ. System of Ga. · General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Daniels · Walther v. Sovereign Bank
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"must first determine from the language of the agreement itself what a reasonable person in the position of the parties would have meant at the time it was effectuated.... In these circumstances, the true test of what is meant is not what the parties to the contract intended it to mean, but what a reasonable person in the position of the parties would have thought it meant...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“impair[ing] the integrity of the bargaining process ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.