Burchell v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

92 federal appellate · 15 district · 125 state decisions

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 336 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Arbitrators are judges chosen by the parties to decide the matters submitted to them, finally and without appeal. As a mode of settling disputes, it should receive every encouragement from courts of equity. If the award is within the submission, and contains the honest decision of the arbitrators, after a full and fair hearing of the parties, a court of equity will not set it aside for error, either in law or fact. A contrary course would be a substitution of the judgment of the chancellor in place of the judges chosen by the parties, and would make an award the commencement, not the end, of litigation.”

   47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. International Union, United Mine Workers v. Marrowbone Development Co. · Burrell v. United States

2. ““If they (the arbitrators) have given their honest incorrupt judgment on the subject-matters submitted to them, after a full and fair hearing of the parties, they are bound by it.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Ramsey · Employers Insurance of Wausau v. National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh

3. “the parties have agreed to trust the discretion and judgment of their neighbors acquainted with them, and their relative standing and credit.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 901 So. 2d 658 - Bowater Inc. v. Zager