Koons v. Vauconsant’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
February 1936
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Home Life Insurance v. Elwell · Tate ex rel. Fleming v. Stevenson · Rogers v. Anderson · Stevenson v. Robinson · Sweet v. Ellis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is right that men should pay their debts, and not culpable for creditors to collect by legitimate means and methods; but making' merchandise of the criminal law is not a lawful method.” Koons v. Vauconsant, 129 Mich. 260, 263 ( 95 Am. St. Rep. 438 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Widmayer
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.