Shaffer v. Jeffery’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Barker v. Golf U.S.A., Inc. (1998), Rogers v. Dell Computer Corp. (2005)
2 federal appellate · 40 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 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. · Volt Information Sciences Inc v. Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University · Southland Corp. v. Keating · Goldsboro Christian Schools, Inc. v. United States · Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if Plaintiffs allege fraud in the inducement of the arbitration clause itself or the underlying contract of which the arbitration agreement is a part, the District Court must adjudicate that issue prior to granting ... any relief based upon the validity of the arbitration clause.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[S]ubject matter jurisdiction is not dependent upon the consent (or waiver) of a party, and a challenge to subject matter jurisdiction may be raised at any time in the course of the proceedings.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“arbitration agreements are valid, enforceable and irrevocable except upon grounds which exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.”
3 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.