Matteson v. Ryder System Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
99 F.3d 108 · 1996
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Century Indemnity Co. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London (2009), Brentwood Medical Associates v. United Mine Workers of America (2005)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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
Relies on United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · Ludwig Honold Mfg. Co. v. Fletcher · Murphy v. United States · Mobil Oil Corporation 81-2582 81-2583 v. Independent Oil Workers Union
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“simply ... rubber stamp [arbitrators'] interpretations and decisions....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the arbitrators exceeded their powers, or so imperfectly executed them that a mutual, final, and definite award upon the subject matter submitted was not made.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not the equivalent of a grant of limitless power,”
4 later decisions 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.