Sovak v. Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.’s Empirical Analysis
280 F.3d 1266 · 2002
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably 300 F. Supp. 2d 119 - Jung v. Association of American Medical Colleges (2004), United States v. Park Place Associates, Ltd. (2009)
15 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 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 Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Volt Information Sciences Inc v. Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University · Mastrobuono v. Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc. · Greenwood v. Federal Aviation Administration · Chiron Corporation v. Ortho Diagnostic Systems Inc
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[0]ne may not complain on review of errors below for which he is responsible.” Deland v. Old Republic Life Ins. Co., 758 F.2d 1331, 1336 (9th Cir.1985); see also Sovak v. Chugai Pharm. Co., 280 F.3d 1266, 1270 (9th Cir.2002) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Houng v. Tatung Co.“If on its face, the [arbitration] award presents a plausible interpretation of the contract, judicial inquiry ceases and the award must be enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a general choice-of-law clause within an arbitration provision does not trump the presumption that the FAA supplies the rules for arbitration.”
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.