passing-on defense
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 392 U.S. 481 - Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp. · 1968Most cited · 2,176 citing opinions
the defense that economic circumstances were such that the overcharged buyer could only charge his customers a higher price because the price to him was higher, and that in such circumstances the buyer suffers no loss from the overcharge
How often courts cite the case defining “passing-on defense”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “passing-on defense” — 2,164 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.