Smith v. Equitable’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp. · Seville Industrial Machinery Corp. v. Southmost Machinery Corp. · Seus v. John Nuveen & Co. · Armijo v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Moser v. DeSetta
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to arbitrate any dispute, claim or controversy that may arise between [him] and [his] firm, or a customer, or any other person, that is required to be arbitrated under the rules, constitutions, or by-laws”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“or some other ground recognized by the law applicable to contracts generally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Uniform Application for Securities Industry Registration or Transfer.”
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.