Pritzker’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
38 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Charles Harris (1999), Scinto v. Sosin (1998)
38 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Singleton v. Wulff · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp.
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under traditional agency theory, she [the nonsignatory agent] is subject to contractual provisions to which MLPF & S [the principal] is bound. Barrowclough [v. Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. ], 752 F.2d [923] at 938 [ (3d Cir.1985) ]. Because a principal is bound under the terms of a valid arbitration clause, its agents, employees, and representatives are also covered under the terms of such agreements. See, Arnold v. Arnold Corp., 920 F.2d 1269 , 1281-82 (6th Cir. 1990); Letizia v. Prudential Bache Securities, 802 F.2d 1185 , 1187-88 (9th Cir.1986)."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“all controversies between me or my agents and you or your agents, representatives or employees arising out of or concerning any such accounts, any transactions between us or for such accounts, or the construction, performance, or breach of this or any other agreement between us, whether entered into prior to, on or subsequent to the date below....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ourts have broadly construed similar agreements, interpreting them to apply to all disputes between signatories”
2 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.