No 7283’s Empirical Analysis

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3 district ·

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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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In order to check illegal practices and at the same time not seriously disturb current methods of financing the purchase of automobiles, Congress enacted § 3617 by imposing on corporations financing automobile instalment purchases, the obligation to obtain available official information that the purchasers of the automobiles which they financed were not likely to be engaged in liquor law violations. The specific requirement of the statute which Congress thought would accomplish this dual purpose was the obligation imposed upon the finance companies to make the required inquiry if they wished to protect their security in the event that the purchaser violated the law; and if they failed to comply with the simple and not onerous requirement of the statute they took the risk of losing their security.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 327 F. Supp. 1074 - United States v. One 1969 Chrysler Newport 2-Door