Cotton v. Slone’s Empirical Analysis
4 F.3d 176 · 1993
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Doctor's Associates, Inc. v. Distajo (1995), Doctor's Associates, Inc. v. Emily Distajo (1997)
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 9 U.S.C. § 16 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Maternally Yours, Inc. v. Your Maternity Shop, Inc. · Russell v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. · United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is a strong presumption in favor of arbitration, and ... waiver of the right to arbitration is not to be lightly inferred.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he aims of section 16(a) would be defeated if a party could reserve its right to appeal an interlocutory order denying arbitration, allow the substantive lawsuit to run its course (which could take years), and then, if dissatisfied with the result, seek to enforce the right to arbitration on appeal from the final judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The waiver determination necessarily depends upon the facts of the particular case and is not susceptible to bright line rules.”
3 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.