arbitrator
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 74 U.S. 188 - Gordon v. United States · 1868Most cited · 38 citing opinions
a private extraordinary judge chosen by the parties who have a matter in dispute, invested with power to decide the same. In order to clothe a person with the authority of an arbitrator, the parties must agree to be bound by the decision of the person chosen to determine the matter in controversy
How often courts cite the case defining “arbitrator”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “arbitrator” — 38 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.