Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1,153 federal appellate · 485 district · 1,509 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,090 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. (1983), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc (1985)
1,153 federal appellate · 485 district · 1,509 state decisions — followed in 49 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPrima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 701 · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Tumey v. State of Ohio · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Bernhardt v. Polygraphic Co. of America, Inc.
Cited together with Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · Southland Corp. v. Keating · Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd · At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers
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 5,090 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“goes to the `making' of the agreement to arbitrate,”
219 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce”
78 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement”
60 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.