Mishkin v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 12 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In construing a statute, our goal is to determine and give effect to the intent of the legislature and adopt the statutory construction that best effectuates the purposes of the legislative scheme.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hygiene Fire Protection District v. Board of County Commissioners · Mishkin v. Young

2. “willful retention of a security deposit in violation of this section shall render a landlord Hable for treble the amount of that portion of the security deposit wrongfully withheld from the tenant, together with reasonable attorney's fees and court costs ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mishkin v. Young

3. “[T]he purpose of the seven-day period following a tenant's demand notice is to give landlords one last opportunity to avoid treble damages only by returning the entire security deposit.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Am. Family Mut. Ins. Co. v. Barriga