Lott v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1950
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Gage v. Schmidt · People v. Hibernian Banking Ass'n · Groves v. Maghee
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.
““The municipal court of Chicago was created after the adoption of section 34 of article 4 of the constitution, which, in contemplation of the creation of the court, provided that if the General Assembly should create such a court it might abolish the offices of justices of the peace, police magistrates and constables within the city and limit the jurisdiction of justices of the peace of the county outside of the city to that territory. The primary and leading purpose manifest from the constitutional provision was to create a court with the jurisdiction and functions of justices of the peace and police magistrates and to abolish their offices for the territory within the city. While that was the well known purpose of section 34 and the occasion for creating the court, the General Assembly saw fit to add to the jurisdiction of justices of the peace and police magistrates jurisdiction in certain classes of cases of more importance in which jurisdiction had been exercised by county and circuit courts. This was done under the provision that the jurisdiction and practice of the court should be such as the General Assembly might prescribe, and in the exercise of its discretion the General Assembly did not give to the municipal court all the jurisdiction of any other court except the courts of justices of the peace and police magistrates. If the municipal court is considered in its entirety it is impossible to assign to it a place identical with the grade or class of any other court ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.