Ex Parte Isbell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Ex Parte Napier (1998), Roberson v. MS Life Insurance Co. (1999)
42 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 2310
Relies on Lee v. Brown · United States v. Alpert · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Scarlett Harbor Associates Ltd. Partnership · McBro Planning and Development Company v. Triangle Electrical Construction Company Inc · Hughes Masonry Company, Inc. v. Greater Clark County School Building Corporation, J. A. Construction Management Corporation v. Insurance Company of North America, Third Party
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his case is substantially identical to [ Waverlee ], in that `[t]he warranty claims here are not intertwined with and founded upon the sales installment agreement[], except in the utterly collateral sense that if the plaintiffs had never purchased their mobile homes, they would not have been protected by the warranties that came with them.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“MANUFACTURED HOME RETAIL INSTALLMENT CONTRACT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"21. ARBITRATION: All disputes, claims or controversies arising from or relating to this Contract or the relationships which result from this Contract, or the validity of this arbitration clause or the entire Contract, shall be resolved by binding arbitration by one arbitrator selected by Assignee with consent of Buyer(s). This arbitration Contract is made pursuant to a transaction in interstate commerce, and shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act at 9 U.S.C. § 1 . Judgment upon the award rendered may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. The parties agree and understand that they choose arbitration instead of litigation to resolve disputes. The parties understand that they have a right or opportunity to litigate disputes through a court, but that they prefer to resolve their disputes through arbitration except as provided herein. THE PARTIES VOLUNTARILY AND KNOWINGLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT THEY HAVE TO A JURY TRIAL EITHER PURSUANT TO ARBITRATION UNDER *Page 91 THIS CLAUSE OR PURSUANT TO A COURT ACTION BY ASSIGNEE (AS PROVIDED HEREIN). The parties agree and understand that all disputes arising under case law, statutory law and all other laws including, but not limited to, all contract, tort and property disputes will be subject to binding arbitration in accord with this contract. The parties agree and understand that the arbitrator shall have all powers provided by the law and the Contract. These powers shall include all legal and equitable remedies including, but n”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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