Ex Parte Caver’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
35 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1011 (§ 1 of the McCarran-Ferguson Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act)
Relies on Foremost Ins. Co. v. Parham · 551 So. 2d 259 - Hickox v. Stover · TranSouth Financial Corp. v. Bell · Ex Parte Gates · First Family Financial Services, Inc. v. Rogers
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A `party seeking to compel arbitration has the burden of proving the existence of a contract calling for arbitration and proving that that contract involves a transaction affecting interstate commerce.'”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage““Foremost ended the era of ‘ostrichism’ that had been heralded in when this Court adopted the ‘justifiable reliance’ standard in Hickox v. Stover, 551 So.2d 259 (Ala.1989), and it foreclosed the right of a person to blindly rely on an agent’s oral representations or silence to the exclusion of written disclosures in a policy.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.