Schaefer v. Allstate Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
241 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 243 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Williams v. Aetna Finance Co. (1998), Hayes v. Oakridge Home (2009)
241 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 Mendes v. Automobile Insurance · Schmidt v. Midwest Family Mutual Insurance Co. · Pepin v. American Universal Insurance · 769 F. Supp. 1135 - Field v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Ohio Council 8, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees v. Ohio Department of Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities
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 243 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"does not preclude parties from agreeing to bring before an arbitrator or panel of arbitrators, prior to the initiation of litigation, a particular set of issues or disputes that may arise between them, or from agreeing further that each party will retain the right to disregard any decision reached through arbitration and seek relief in court in a trial de novo." Id. at 720 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]f the issue were properly presented to the court, I would hold that an agreement that provides for nonbinding arbitration will be enforced to the extent possible under the law, and the parties will be held to their agreement to arbitrate unless the agreement is unconscionable or otherwise revocable as a matter of law or equity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[e]ach time this court *** decides cases based upon issues neither raised by the parties nor considered by the courts below, we tread upon jurisprudential quicksand, and the more we thrash, the deeper we sink.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.