Matkowsky v. Katz’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 3 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “within the meaning of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended (56 Stats. 23, 50 U.S.C.A.) and the Rent Regulation for Housing ( 8 F.R. 7322 ) promulgated thereunder, and adjudges valid the agreement of May 3, 1944, whereby the defendants herein relinquished all right to occupy and operate the premises subsequent to September 30, 1945. The majority opinion errs in disregarding the previously and finally adjudicated facts. It cannot reach its results without disregarding those facts and the law of res judicata. The Rent Regulation ( 13(9) (6)) defines”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lovett v. Bell

2. “of the right to resist eviction of the premises as authorized by the Rent Regulation cannot be enforced because it is an exaction contrary to the interests of the United States as declared by the act. To hold otherwise would enable a landlord to effectuate an eviction claim by a method which he could not otherwise urge because of the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lovett v. Bell