Gibson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 11 state decisions

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

1. “[a]n examination of the record reveals that [appellee] may have had as one motive in conveying the property to his son the evasion of rent control. And as appellant suggests, this result may not have been desired. Yet, the statute is not ambiguous. It clearly exempts from rent control rental housing of four units or less which is owned by not more than four persons provided the owner(s) has no interest, either directly or indirectly, in any other rental property in the District of Columbia and provided a claim of exemption statement is properly filed with the Rental Accommodations Office. In our view, these criteria have been satisfied.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. West End Tenants Ass'n v. George Washington University

2. “will not look beyond the plain meaning of a statute when the language is unambiguous and does not produce an absurd result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. District of Columbia v. American Federation of Government Employees