People v. Vinton’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1917
7 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 Village of Northville v. Westfall · Cooper v. People · Webster v. City of Lansing
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is apparent from these provisions that suits to recover these penalties in an action of debt or assumpsit would and must be commenced, tried, and appealed as civil cases, with the village of Sparta as plaintiff. But when they are commenced by complaint and warrant they take on the nature of criminal proceedings, and may be commenced and prosecuted in the name of the people of the State of Michigan.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. Hart
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.