Zell v. Jacoby-Bender, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 34 · 1976
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Mediterranean Enterprises, Inc. v. Ssangyong Corp. (1983), Nantucket Investors II v. California Federal Bank (1995)
18 federal appellate · 3 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 · 9 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co. · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Bernhardt v. Polygraphic Co. of America, Inc. · Baltimore Contractors, Inc. v. Bodinger · Landy v. Federal Deposit Insurance
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A written provision in any maritime transaction or 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.””
1 later decision 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.