Berman v. Prendergast’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dean Milk Co. v. City of Chicago · Wilhelm v. Industrial Commission · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. · The People v. Holderfield · 299 Ill. App. 117 - Silfen v. City of Chicago
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or use in any place of public resort within the city any tables or implements for any game of bagatelle or pigeonhole. “The term ‘bagatelle or pigeonhole,’ as used in this section, shall mean a game played with any number of balls or spheres upon a table or board having holes, pockets or cups into which such balls or spheres may drop or become lodged and having arches, pins, and springs, or any of them, to control, deflect or impede the direction or speed of the balls or spheres put in motion by the player, and shall-include the modern variety of bagatelle or pigeonhole commonly known as pin games.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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