Edelson v. Soricelli’s Empirical Analysis
610 F.2d 131 · 1979
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. Teleconcepts, Inc. (1995), Weaver v. Marine Bank (1982)
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · Hanna v. Plumer · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Far from discouraging arbitration prior to litigation in federal court, the federal legislative and judicial mandates frequently favor arbitration. For example, 9 U.S.C. § 3 allows parties to a contract providing for arbitration to have federal court proceedings stayed pending arbitration of contractual disputes.” 610 F.2d at 139 . “Pennsylvania has not sought to eliminate the right to recovery but has channeled all plaintiffs to a special state judicial forum thinly disguised as an administrative agency. * * * I believe the panel is a procedural device for allocating cases within the State of Pennsylvania. * * * [Tjhe panel is actually another court of the state.” 610 F.2d at 145,147 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a condition precedent to entry into the state judicial system.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The essence of our legal tradition is that the beginning point of legal reasoning, or, stated syllogistically, the major premise, must not be a statement of the suggested conclusion because to engage in this practice is to indulge in Petitio principii, more colloquially referred to as "begging the question.” By whatever label, it is a process of circular reasoning that fails to prove the initial thesis propounded and uses the argued thesis as proof of itself.”
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.