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 1965 / Served to 1980

Timothy C. Quinn

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Timothy C. Quinn was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1965–1980 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Quinn authored 491 published opinions for the court (1965–1999), plus 34 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Allen v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co. (128 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. 355 of these were attributed to Quinn 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
1969	Allen v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co.· Dissent†	171 N.W.2d 689	128
1973	People v. Harrison	205 N.W.2d 900	82
1975	Allen v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co.· Concurrence†	232 N.W.2d 302	62
1966	People v. Mallory	139 N.W.2d 904	38
1972	People v. Collins†	204 N.W.2d 290	35
1968	People v. Earegood· Dissent†	162 N.W.2d 802	35
1967	People v. Perine	151 N.W.2d 876	35
1973	People v. Wimbush	205 N.W.2d 890	32
1968	People v. Dailey	148 N.W.2d 209	32
1977	People v. Freeman†	252 N.W.2d 518	31
1975	People v. Livingston	236 N.W.2d 63	29
1968	People v. Camel· Dissent†	160 N.W.2d 790	29
1971	People v. Bandy†	192 N.W.2d 115	28
1974	Weckler v. Berrien County Road Commission†	222 N.W.2d 9	26
1971	Johnson v. State†	188 N.W.2d 33	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 535 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 Timothy C. Quinn on?: Timothy C. Quinn was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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15 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).