Pacific Development L.C. v. Orton’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2022
11 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 Buzas Baseball, Inc. v. Salt Lake Trappers, Inc. · Bear River Mutual Insurance Co. v. Wall · Jenkins v. Percival · Intermountain Power Agency v. Union Pacific Railroad · Allred v. Educators Mutual Insurance Ass'n of Utah
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. (internal quotation marks omitted). Despite this limitation on the seope of arbitration, at the hearing, both parties presented evidence regarding Plat B as well as Plat C and the arbitrator entered a decision in favor of Orton with respect to both plats. Id. 111-2. Pacific Development filed a motion to vacate the award, arguing that the arbitrator had exceeded his authority under the arbitration agreement when he made an order regarding Plat B. Id. 18. The supreme court agreed. Id. TV8-14. It held that a written agreement defining the scope of arbitration could not be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[to allow modification of an express written agreement by less than a similarly explicit intent would simply cireumvent the statutory requirements and the policies they vindicate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“arbitration agreements, unlike ordinary contracts, must be contained in a written document setting forth the scope of the dispute to be arbitrated.”
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.