289 F. Supp. 2d 855 - Saneil v. Robards’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 9 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. · Volt Information Sciences Inc v. Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University · Allied-Bruce Terminix Cos., Inc. v. Dobson · Kaplan v. First Options of Chicago, Inc. · Daniel v. Green, et al.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notwithstanding its congenial effects on interstate commerce, the sale of residential real estate is inherently intrastate. Contracts strictly for the sale of residential real estate focus entirely on a commodity-the land-which is firmly planted in one particular state. The citizenship of immediate parties (the buyer and the seller) or their movements to or from that state are incidental to the real estate transaction. Those movements are not part of the transaction itself. All of the legal relationships concerning the land are bound by state law principles. Single residential real estate transactions of this type have no substantial or direct connection to interstate commerce. For all these reasons, logic suggests that such transactions are not among those considered as involving interstate commerce. To characterize a residential real estate as involving interstate commerce under these circumstances would actually promote a lack of uniformity in the law, which is exactly contrary to one of the FAA’s stated purpose. If the FAA applied to out-of-state purchasers of Kentucky real estate,' different rules would apply in that considerable volume of transactions concerning property here. Applying Kentucky law to all Kentucky real estate transactions creates a more uniform and, therefore, a more equitable body of law. [...] On the other hand, more complex transactions related to land may involve interstate commerce. For instance, in Alliedr-Bruce, the United States Supreme Court fo”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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