State v. Vredenberg’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2018
4 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 State Ex Rel. Webber v. Tahash · State v. Gerou · State v. Bronson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Building' includes a dwelling or other structure suitable for affording shelter for human beings ... and includes portions of such structure as are separately occupied .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lopez · State v. Hofmann“The fact that Minn. Stat. § 609.58 , subd. 1(2), does not specifically include 'vessel' within the definition of 'building' does not mean that the legislature intended to exclude boats.... The aim of the drafters of the revised statute was to streamline the definition, not to omit certain structures from the protection of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lopez“every house, vessel, railway car, tent, shop, or other structure suitable for affording shelter for human beings, or appurtenant to or connected with a structure so adapted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hofmann
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.