Allied-Bruce Terminix Cos., Inc. v. Dobson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
310 federal appellate · 200 district · 1,297 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,369 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably First Options of Chicago, Inc. v. Kaplan (1995), Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena (1995)
310 federal appellate · 200 district · 1,297 state decisions — followed in 46 states
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. § 1331 · 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 15 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 2 · 9 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Hanna v. Plumer · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union
Cited together with Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Southland Corp. v. Keating · Volt Information Sciences Inc v. Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University · Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · First Options of Chicago, Inc. v. Kaplan
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 2,369 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A written provision in ... a contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce to settle by arbitration a controversy thereafter arising out of such contract or transaction ... shall be valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.”
169 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage“for an order directing that such arbitration proceed in the manner provided for in such agreement.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.