Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters’s Empirical Analysis
659 F.2d 1252 · 1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2000
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · Atkinson v. Sinclair Refining Co. · Charles Dowd Box Co. v. Courtney
Most-quoted passages
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“'unless it may be said with positive assurance that the arbitration clause is not susceptible of an interpretation that covers the asserted dispute.' " Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc. v. Int'l Bhd. of Teamsters, 659 F.2d 1252 , 1256 (4th Cir.1981) (quoting United Steelworkers v. Warrior and Gulf Navigation Co., 363 U.S. 574 , 582-83, 80 S.Ct. 1347, 1353, 4 L.Ed.2d 1409 (1960)). Courts must inquire whether a contract's arbitration provisions "arguably cover”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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