Nitro Distributing, Inc. v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Seeck v. Geico General Insurance Co. (2007), Lawrence v. Beverly Manor (2009)
3 federal appellate · 57 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 9 U.S.C. § 4
Relies on Southland Corp. v. Keating · 14 Cal. 4th 394 - Rosenthal v. Great Western Financial Securities Corp. · Jack B. Anglin Co., Inc. v. Tipps · Thomson-Csf Sa v. American Arbitration Association · Dunn Industrial Group, Inc. v. City of Sugar Creek
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the most basic principle of contract law that parties are bound by the terms of the contracts they sign and courts will enforce contracts according to their plain meaning, unless induced by fraud, duress, or undue influence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining whether or not a valid arbitration agreement exists, we apply `the usual rules of state contract law and canons of contract interpretation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When faced with a motion to compel arbitration, the motion court must determine whether a valid arbitration agreement exists and, if so, whether the specific dispute falls within the scope of the arbitration agreement.”
2 later decisions 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.