rent
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 305 U.S. 267 - M. E. Blatt Co. v. United States · 1938Most cited · 169 citing opinions
Rent is 'a fixed sum, or property amounting to a fixed sum, to be paid at stated times for the use of property * * *; it does not include payments, uncertain both as to amount and time, made for the cost of improvements * * *.
How often courts cite the case defining “rent”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “rent” — 169 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.