In re the Arbitration between Sprinzen & Nomberg’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably 21 Cal. 4th 1066 - Broughton v. Cigna Healthplans (1999), Diapulse Corporation of America v. Carba, Ltd. (1980)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts ... must exercise due restraint in this regard, for the preservation of the arbitration process and the policy of allowing parties to choose a nonjudieial forum, embedded in freedom to contract principles, must not be disturbed by courts, acting under the guise of public policy, wishing to decide the dispute on its merits, for arguably every controversy has at its core some issue requiring the application, or weighing, of policy considerations. Thus, there are now but a few matters of concern which have been recognized as so intertwined with overriding public policy considerations as to ... place them beyond the bounds of the arbitration process....”
2 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.