Thomson-Csf Sa v. American Arbitration Association’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
35 district · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 318 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Charles Grigson River City Films Inc, In Re Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. (2005)
35 district · 124 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
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Lee v. Brown · Gregory v. Frontier Materials, 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 318 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) incorporation by reference; 2) assumption; 3) agency; 4) veil-piercing/alter ego; and 5) estoppel.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intimately founded in and intertwined with the underlying contract obligations.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]illing to estop a signatory from avoiding arbitration with a nonsignatory when the issues the nonsignatory is seeking to resolve in arbitration are intertwined with the agreement that the estopped party has signed.”
14 later decisions 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.