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trial by arbitrators

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 46 U.S. 83 - The Alexandria Canal Company v. Francis Swann · 1847Most cited · 41 citing opinions

a trial by arbitrators, appointed by the court with the consent of both parties, is one of the modes of prosecuting a suit to judgment as well established and as fully warranted by law as a trial by jury

How often courts cite the case defining “trial by arbitrators”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “trial by arbitrators” — 41 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.