Melsheimer v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2017
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Muller v. . McKesson · Brice v. . Bauer · Marble v. Ross · Johnson v. Patterson · Laverone v. Mangianti
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“></span> presumed negligence on his part; second, it is essential to the proof of negligence, and sufficient evidence thereof, that the owner be shown to have had notice of the propensity of an animal to do mischief; third, proof that the animal is of a savage and ferocious nature is equivalent to proof of express notice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“></span> of the animal with knowledge of its propensities; and, as to the latter, proof that the animal is of a savage and ferocious nature is equivalent to express notice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“That he bit and injured the plaintiff without any neglect or fault on his [plaintiff's] part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.