General Guaranty Insurance v. New Orleans General Agency, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
427 F.2d 924 · 1970
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 31 Cal. 3d 584 - Keating v. Superior Court (1982), Harper Sibley, Jr., Cross v. Tandy Corporation, Tandy Corporation, Cross (1976)
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 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 Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. · Robert Lawrence Co. v. Devonshire Fabrics, Inc. · Kulukundis Shipping Co. v. Amtorg Trading Corp. · Campbell v. United States · California Co v. State of Colorado
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any suit or proceeding be brought in any of the courts of the United States upon any issue referable to arbitration under an agreement in writing for such arbitration, the court in which such suit is pending, upon being satisfied that the issue involved in such suit or proceeding is referable to arbitration under such an agreement, shall on application of one of the parties stay the trial of the action until such arbitration has been had in accordance with the terms of the agreement, providing the applicant for the stay is not in default in proceeding with such arbitration.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant can waive arbitration by actions which it takes during determination in the legal forum of the threshold issue of existence of an arbitration contract, if those actions are sufficiently inconsistent with the right to arbitrate.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]nce the defendant, by answer, has given notice of insisting on arbitration the burden is heavy on the party seeking to prove waiver.”
4 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.