Evident partiality
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 393 U.S. 145 - Commonwealth Coatings Corp. v. Continental Casualty Co. · 1968Most cited · 1,271 citing opinions
any tribunal permitted by law to try cases and controversies not only must be unbiased but also must avoid even the appearance of bias. We cannot believe that it was the purpose of Congress to authorize litigants to submit their cases and controversies to arbitration boards that might reasonably be thought biased against one litigant and favorable to another.
How often courts cite the case defining “Evident partiality”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Evident partiality” — 1,262 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.