Mastrobuono v. Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
404 federal appellate · 250 district · 455 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,919 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably First Options of Chicago, Inc. v. Kaplan (1995), Green Tree Financial Corp.-Alabama v. Randolph (2000)
404 federal appellate · 250 district · 455 state decisions — followed in 36 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMastrobuono v. Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 3 · 9 U.S.C. § 4
Relies on Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · Volt Information Sciences Inc v. Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University · Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd · Southland Corp. v. Keating
Cited together with Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Volt Information Sciences Inc v. Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University · First Options of Chicago, Inc. v. Kaplan · Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers
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 1,919 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“due regard must be given to the federal policy favoring arbitration, and ambiguities as to the scope of the arbitration clause itself resolved in favor of arbitration.”
102 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]ny doubts concerning the scope of arbitrable issues should be resolved in favor of arbitration....”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the interpretation of private contracts is ordinarily a question of state law, which this Court does not sit to review”
7 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.