John Thompson Beacon Windows, Ltd. v. Ferro, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
232 F.2d 366 · 1956
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably United States v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1959), Hartford Financial Systems, Inc. v. Florida Software Services, Inc. (1983)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 9 U.S.C. § 4
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Catlin v. United States · Baltimore Contractors, Inc. v. Bodinger · Swift & Co. Packers v. Compania Colombiana Del Caribe, S. A. · Forgay v. Conrad
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The suit was not for injunctive relief in the traditional sense, nor even for specific performance strictly speaking. It was for a unique statutory remedy.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court shall hear the parties, and upon being satisfied that the making of the agreement for arbitration or the failure to comply therewith is not in issue, the court shall make an order directing the parties to proceed to arbitration in accordance with the terms of the agreement. The hearing and proceedings, under such agreement, shall be within the district in which the petition for an order directing such arbitration is filed. If the making of the arbitration agreement or the failure, neglect, or refusal to perform the same be in issue, the court shall proceed summarily to the trial thereof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] party aggrieved by the alleged failure ... of another to arbitrate under a written agreement for arbitration may petition any United States district court ... for an order directing that such arbitration proceed in the manner provided for in such agreement.”
1 later decision 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.