Hardware Dealers' Mut Fire Ins Co of Wisconsin v. Glidden Co’s Empirical Analysis
284 U.S. 151 · 1931
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 22 district · 121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 319 later decisions (47 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Shapiro v. Thompson (1969), Crowell v. Benson (1932)
52 federal appellate · 22 district · 121 state decisions — followed in 21 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 New York Central Railroad Company v. Sarah White · Virginian Ry Co v. United States · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Union Pacific Railroad · German Alliance Insurance Company v. Ike Lewis · Mountain Timber Company v. State of Washington
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 319 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The present statute substitutes a determination by arbitration for trial in court.... As appellant’s objection to it is directed specifically to the power of the state to substitute the one remedy for the other, rather than to the constitutionality of the particular procedure prescribed or followed before the arbitrators, it suffices to say that the procedure by which rights may be enforced and wrongs remedied is peculiarly a subject of state regulation and control. The Fourteenth Amendment neither implies that all trials must be by jury, nor guarantees any particular form or method of state procedure. In the exercise of that power and to satisfy a public need, a state may choose the remedy best adapted, in the legislative judgment, to protect the interests concerned, provided its choice is not unreasonable or arbitrary, and the procedure it adopts satisfies the constitutional requirements of reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the single issue of the amount of loss under a fire insurance policy, reserving all other issues for trial in court”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he arbitration clause has long been voluntarily inserted by insurers in fire policies, and ... in the appraisal of the loss by arbitration, expert knowledge and prompt inspection of the damaged property may be availed of to an extent not ordinarily possible in the course of the more deliberate processes of a judicial proceeding. . . . Hence the requirement that disputes of this type arising under this special class of insurance contracts be submitted to arbitrators cannot be deemed to be a denial of either due process or equal protection of the laws. . . . [T]he requirements of the 14th Amendment . . . are satisfied if the substitute remedy is substantial and efficient. We cannot say that the determination by arbitrators, chosen as provided by the present statute, of the single issue of the amount of loss under a fir'e insurance policy, reserving all other issues for trial in court, does not afford such a remedy, or that in this respect it falls short of due process . . . .”
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.