Stearns v. Vincent’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1996
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad v. Van Steinburg · Coffin v. Anderson · Carter v. Bennett · Chandler v. Allison · Weymouth v. Chicago & North-Western Railway Co.
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.
““In the law of burglary the dwelling house is deemed to include whatever is within the curtilage even if not inclosed with the dwelling if used with it for domestic purposes. People v. Taylor, 2 Mich. 250 ; Pitcher v. People, 16 Mich. 142 . This construction of the term is for the peace, repose and safety of families in the night-time and it is made to include all those buildings, the forcible breaking of which for felonious purposes during the hours which peaceable and law-abiding per sons give up to rest, would naturally cause alarm, distress and danger.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Labbe
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.