Herb v. Pitcairn’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2019
16 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 Goodhue v. People · People Ex Rel. Rusch v. White · Rabbitt v. Frank C. Weber & Co. · Hunt v. Rosenbaum Grain Corp. · Central Illinois Public Service Co. v. Industrial Commission
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is commonly said the legislature derives its powers to create courts from article VI of the constitution, this statement is technically inaccurate, as under our system of government the General Assembly is vested with all legislative powers not withheld or limited. The constitution is not a grant of power to the legislature, but is a limitation upon its inherent powers, and it may legislate upon any subject not withdrawn from its authority. . . . Referring back to section 1 of article VI we find the constitution authorizes the General Assembly to create courts ‘in and for cities.’ The constitution limits its territory. There is no limit, under this section, of the jurisdiction that may be vested by the legislature in city courts within such territory. Therefore, while a city court has been denominated an inferior court (Reid v. Morton, 119 Ill. 118 ), because it does not have the territorial jurisdiction of a circuit court, nor the powers of the Supreme Court, yet within its territorial jurisdiction it is a court of general jurisdiction because it may be invested with any jurisdiction the General Assembly sees fit to give it within the prescribed territory.” (Italics supplied.)”
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.