American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant’s Empirical Analysis
570 U.S. 228 · 2013
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 10 district · 12 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 2072 · 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on United States v. Bagley · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · 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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts must rigorously enforce arbitration agreements according to their terms, including terms that specify with whom [the parties] choose to arbitrate their disputes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] written provision in ... a contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce to settle by arbitration a controversy ... 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where, as here, a party seeks to invalidate an arbitration agreement on the ground that arbitration would be prohibitively expensive, that party bears the burden of showing the likelihood of incurring such costs.”
1 later decision 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.