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arbitration clause

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 74 U.S. 386 - Riddlesbarger v. Hartford Insurance · 1868Most cited · 281 citing opinions

A stipulation in a policy to refer all disputes to arbitration stands upon a different footing. That is held invalid, because it is an attempt to oust the courts of jurisdiction by excluding the assured from all resort to them for his remedy.

How often courts cite the case defining “arbitration clause”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “arbitration clause” — 281 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.