Stone v. Doerge’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]here is no denying that many decisions proclaim that federal policy favors arbitration, . . . this differs from saying that courts read contracts to foist arbitration on parties who have not genuinely agreed to that device.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Valued Services of Kentucky, LLC v. Watkins · Bcs Insurance Company v. Wellmark, Incorporated, Doing Business as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa

2. “[a]s there is no thumb on the scale in favor of one judicial forum over another, there is no preference for arbitration over adjudication either.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bcs Insurance Company v. Wellmark, Incorporated, Doing Business as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa

3. “to implement the parties' preferences between judicial and arbitral forums, not to displace that choice with one of our own.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bcs Insurance Company v. Wellmark, Incorporated, Doing Business as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa