Francisco v. Stolt Achievement MT’s Empirical Analysis
293 F.3d 270 · 2002
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Freudensprung v. Offshore Technical Services, Inc. (2004), Bautista v. Star Cruises (2005)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd · Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co. · Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams · Aaron v. Securities & Exchange Commission
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) there is an agreement in writing within the meaning of the Convention; (2) the agreement provides for arbitration in the territory of a signatory of the Convention; (3) the agreement arises out of a legal relationship, whether contractual or not, which is considered commercial; and (4) a party to the agreement is not an American citizen, or that the commercial relationship has some reasonable relation with one or more foreign states.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if (1) there is an agreement in writing to arbitrate the dispute, (2) the agreement provides for arbitration in the territory of a Convention signatory, (3) the agreement arises out of a commercial legal relationship, and (4) a party to the agreement is not an American citizen.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the subject matter of an action or proceeding pending in a State court relates to an arbitration agreement or award falling under the Convention.”
5 later decisions 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.