Lessin v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.3d 813 · 2007
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 14 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Century Indemnity Co. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London (2009), Porzig v. Dresdner, Kleinwort, Benson, North America LLC (2007)
6 federal appellate · 14 district · 4 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 9 U.S.C. § 10 (Federal Arbitration Act)
Relies on Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., et al. v. Patrick Carmichael, Etc., et al. · Burchell v. Marsh · Bell Aerospace Co. Division of Textron, Inc. v. Local 516, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America · Hoteles Condado Beach, La Concha & Convention Center v. Union De Tronquistas Local 901 · Cole v. Burns Intrenational Security Services
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n making evidentiary determinations, an arbitrator need not follow all the niceties observed by the federal courts. The arbitrator need only grant the parties a fundamentally .fair hearing.... [A] federal court may vacate an award only if the panel’s refusal to hear pertinent and material evidence prejudices the rights of the parties to the arbitration proceedings.”
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.