Rice v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. · 22 Cal. 4th 1084 - PLCM Group, Inc. v. Drexler · 14 Cal. 4th 394 - Rosenthal v. Great Western Financial Securities Corp. · 35 Cal. 3d 312 - Ericksen, Arbuthnot, McCarthy, Kearney & Walsh, Inc. v. 100 Oak Street · Mediterranean Enterprises, Inc. v. Ssangyong Corp.
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.
“' [Citation.] '[T]he terms of the specific arbitration clause under consideration must reasonably cover the dispute as to which arbitration is requested.' [Citation.] [¶] ... [¶] ... 'The whole of a contract is to be taken together, so as to give effect to every part, if reasonably practicable, each clause helping to interpret the other.' [Citation.] ' "A court must view the language in light of the instrument as a whole and not use a 'disjointed, single-paragraph, strict construction approach' [citation].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A party who claims that there is an applicable written arbitration agreement may petition the superior court for an order compelling the parties to arbitrate. [Citation.] ... 'In determining whether an arbitration agreement applies to a specific dispute, the court may examine only the agreement itself and the complaint filed by the party refusing arbitration....' [Citation.] ... Where, as here, 'there is no”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'California has a strong public policy in favor of arbitration and any doubts regarding the arbitrability of a dispute are resolved in favor of arbitration.... This strong policy has resulted in the general rule that arbitration should be upheld "unless it can be said with assurance that an arbitration clause is not susceptible to an interpretation covering the asserted dispute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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