Brown v. Witco Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
340 F.3d 209 · 2003
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Soremekun v. Thrifty Payless, Inc. (2007), Brabham III v. Ag Edwards & Sons Incorporated Ag (2004)
12 federal appellate · 4 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 United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · United Paperworkers International Union v. Misco, Inc. · Major League Baseball Players Assn. v. Garvey
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An arbitrator can ... clarify or construe an arbitration award that seems complete but proves to be ambiguous in its scope and implementation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once a court of competent jurisdiction has confirmed that an arbitration decision is unambiguous and binding on the parties, the arbitrator becomes functus officio with respect to that portion of the arbitration award and lacks authority to reconsider those aspects of his decision that are unambiguous and binding.... It follows, therefore, that if the arbitrator exceeds the scope of a limited remand order, then the court may vacate those portions of the arbitrator's decision on remand that go beyond his limited authority to clarify, complete, or correct the award that he has already made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“vacated those parts of the arbitrator's remand decision that exceeded the scope of his limited authority on remand.”
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.