Williams v. Aetna Finance Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 312 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 372 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State ex rel. Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers v. Sheward (1999), Hayes v. Oakridge Home (2009)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 312 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. · BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · Allied-Bruce Terminix Cos., Inc. v. Dobson · Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip · TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources 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 372 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, except upon grounds that exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) a representation or, where there is a duty to disclose, concealment of a fact, (b) which is material to the transaction at hand, (c) made falsely, with knowledge of its falsity, or with such utter disregard and recklessness as to whether it is true or false that knowledge may be inferred, (d) with the intent of misleading another into relying upon it, (e) justifiable reliance upon the representation or concealment, and (f) a resulting injury proximately caused by the reliance.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“A presumption favoring arbitration arises when the claim in dispute falls within the scope of the arbitration provision.”
15 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.