Preston v. Ferrer’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 50 district · 236 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 521 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably At&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion (2011), AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion (2011)
63 federal appellate · 50 district · 236 state decisions — followed in 26 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. § 1257 · 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. · Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp. · Volt Information Sciences Inc v. Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University
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 521 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 ... shall be valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a national policy favoring arbitration when the parties contract for that mode of dispute resolution.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.”
4 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.