How do judges of the Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Court of Appeals / Joined 1976 / Served to 1989

Edward A. Quinnell

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Edward A. Quinnell was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1933–2013
Tenure: 1976–1989 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Quinnell authored 26 published opinions for the court (1976–1989), plus 3 concurrences. Most cited: Wilkerson v. Carlo (53 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 29 of these were attributed to Quinnell by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1980	Wilkerson v. Carlo†	300 N.W.2d 658	53
1984	Boyd v. Nelson Credit Centers, Inc†	348 N.W.2d 25	32
1976	Cascade Electric Co. v. Rice†	245 N.W.2d 774	32
1980	Rivers v. Ex-Cell-O Corp.†	300 N.W.2d 420	30
1980	Tulkku v. MacKworth Rees Division of Avis Industries, Inc.†	300 N.W.2d 46	23
1981	People v. Dinsmore†	303 N.W.2d 857	20
1980	Smith v. Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance†	300 N.W.2d 457	18
1980	People v. King†	296 N.W.2d 211	17
1980	In Re Kurzawa†	290 N.W.2d 431	15
1985	People v. Barnes†	379 N.W.2d 464	14
1984	Roberts v. Auto. Club of Mich.†	360 N.W.2d 224	12
1984	Hengartner v. Chet Swanson Sales, Inc†	348 N.W.2d 15	10
1980	People v. Ferrell†	299 N.W.2d 366	10
1989	In Re Forfeiture of One 1983 Cadillac†	439 N.W.2d 346	9
1984	People v. Brown· Concurrence†	358 N.W.2d 592	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 29 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Edward A. Quinnell on?: Edward A. Quinnell was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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13 years on the Michigan Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).