Medical Development Corp. v. Industrial Molding Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
479 F.2d 345 · 1973
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 11 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Genesco, Inc. v. T. Kakiuchi & Co. (1987), Caley v. Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. (2005)
33 federal appellate · 11 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. · International Ass'n of Machinists v. Duckworth · School Board of Richmond v. State Board of Education · Gregory v. United States Government
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Decisions under the Federal Arbitration Act . . . have held it not necessary that there be a simple integrated writing or that a party sign the writing containing the arbitration clause. All that is required is that the arbitration provision be in writing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“state statute[ ][or] decision[ ] which limit[s] arbitration agreements with rules not applicable to other contracts.”
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.