Chambers v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In this regard, we adopt portions of the opinion filed by the five judges of the trial court, which are as follows: “ ‘It is still our view that the Constitution of municipal courts from every viewpoint, except only that of the bare question whether they shall exist at all or not in [a] given locality, is a state, rather than a municipal affair. This seems to us necessarily to follow from the requirement of section 11 of article VI of the State Constitution that “the legislature shall provide by general law for the constitution, regulation, government and procedure of municipal courts and for the jurisdiction thereof except in particulars otherwise specified in this section, and for the establishment of municipal courts in cities or cities and counties governed under charters framed and adopted under the authority of this Constitution and having the population hereinbefore in this section specified,” i. e., more than 40,000 inhabitants. The only “particulars otherwise specified” in section 11, that is particulars in which the subjects mentioned are excepted from the requirement that they be governed by “general law” have to do with the right of the voters of the municipality to decide whether they wish such courts or do not wish them. They can, if they choose, have courts of the sort prescribed by general law under authority of article VI of the Constitution. But they must choose whether they want those courts or do .not want them. They must either take them as the general l”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 82 Cal. App. 2d 228 - Slavich v. Walsh