Nelson v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis

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30 state decisions

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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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““174.02 Owner’s liability. The owner or keeper of any dog which has injured or caused the injury of any person or property or killed, wounded or worried any horses, cattle, sheep, ranch mink or lambs shall be liable to the person so injured and the owner of such animals for all damages so done, without proving notice to the owner or keeper of such dog or knowledge by him that his dog was mischievous or disposed to kill, wound or worry horses, cattle, sheep, ranch mink or lambs; but when ranch mink are killed, wounded or worried, it shall be proven that the dog forcibly entered the enclosure in which they were kept.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 52 Wis. 2d 523 - Chambliss v. Gorelik · 172 Wis. 2d 563 - Campenni v. Walrath

2. “owner was not liable for damages resulting from the vicious act of his dog unless he had prior knowledge of its vicious propensities . . . or the injury was attributable to some negligence [in the manner in which the owner kept his domestic animals].”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smaxwell v. Bayard · State v. Chrystul D. Kizer

3. “. . . the statute only applied to injuries from mischievous or vicious acts of a dog for which at common law the owner would not be liable unless he had knowledge or ought to have known of such propensities.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Julie A. Augsburger v. Homestead Mutual Insurance Company · 52 Wis. 2d 523 - Chambliss v. Gorelik