McCowen v. Dumont’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The language in the statute — ‘For the purposes of this section the * * * receipt of rent for defense-area housing accommodations shall be deemed the * * * selling of a commodity’ — is not as clear as it might be. It does give some verbal support for plaintiff’s theory. Our judgment is that what is meant is that this right to occupy housing accommodations is a ‘commodity’ * * * and that if rent is asked and received there is a ‘selling’ * * *. We do not believe that the language used means that every receipt of rent is a separate selling * * * of the same commodity.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Simmons v. Charbonnier