Quinn v. Heisel’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019
1 federal appellate · 15 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have a right to [warrantless] arrest for breaches of the peace committed in their presence is conceded by all. It is equally clear that they cannot arrest for a past offense, not a felony, upon information or suspicion thereof. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clarke““We are not at present prepared to say that an ordinance of the city of Grand Eapids could authorize arrests without process in cases not justified by common-law principles.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burroughs v. Eastman
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.