Pike v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis

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23 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions

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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]o determine whether two actions arise from the same transaction or claim, [the Court] look[s] to whether the underlying facts are related in time, space, origin, or motivation, whether they form a convenient trial unit, and whether their treatment as a unit conforms to the parties’ expectations ...”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Paramount Pictures Corp. v. Allianz Risk Transfer AG · 283 F. Supp. 2d 993 - Commer v. McEntee

2. “The question is not whether the applicable procedural rules permitted assertion of the claim in the first pro ceeding; rather, the question is whether the claim was sufficiently related to the claims that were asserted in the first proceeding that it should have been asserted in that proceeding.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Paramount Pictures Corp. v. Allianz Risk Transfer AG · Carlson v. Clark

3. “[W]e have serious reservations about the soundness of the arbitrator's reading of this contract. Yet our standard of review constrains us to affirm an arbitrator's judgment even if 'a court is convinced he committed serious error.’”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. v. NL Industries · Westerbeke Corporation v. Daihatsu Motor Co Ltd