Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc’s Empirical Analysis
723 F.2d 155 · 1983
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc (1985), Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. (1984)
18 federal appellate · 13 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1221 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1222 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 2 · 9 U.S.C. § 201 · 9 U.S.C. § 4
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · M/s Bremen v. Zapata off-Shore Company · Wilko v. Swan · Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co. · Continental Inc v. Gte Sylvania Incorporated
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ll doubts are resolved in favor of arbitration; ... unless it may be said with positive assurance that the arbitration clause is not susceptible of an interpretation that covers the asserted dispute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he question . . . is not whether the arbitration clause mentions antitrust or any other particular cause of action, but whether the factual allegations underlying Soler's counterclaims—and Mitsubishi's bona fide defenses to those counterclaims—are within the scope of the arbitration clause, whatever the legal labels attached to those allegations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All disputes, controversies or differences which may arise between [Mitsubishi] and [Soler] out of or in relation to Articles I-B through V of this Agreement or for the breach thereof, shall be finally settled by arbitration in Japan in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association.”
1 later decision 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.