Dalton v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2004
8 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.
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.
““Let’s talk a little bit about the dog. We have a section in our Tennessee Code Annotated which reads as follows: “ ‘Section 44-1408. Dogs not allowed at large. Exception: It shall be unlawful for any person to allow a dog belonging to him, or under his control, or that may be habitually found on premises occupied by him, or immediately under his control, to go upon the premises of another, or upon the highway, or upon a public road or street, provided, however, that this section, Section 1409, shall not apply to a dog on a hunt or chase, or on the way to or from a hunt or chase, or to a dog guarding or driving stock, or on the way for that purpose, or to a dog being moved from one place to another by a person owning or controlling the dog. “ ‘The foregoing exemptions shall not apply * * * unless all damages done by dogs therein exempted, to the person or property of another shall be paid, or tendered to the person so damaged, or to his agent, within 30 days after the damage was done.’ * * * * * * “ * * * [0]ur Supreme Court, has defined for us what the term ‘go at large’ is. “A dog to be running at large within the meaning of this statute, at large means to be free and unrestrained. A dog is quite generally obedient to its master and is not at large when accompanying or following its master, but under control. Running at large, has been defined, a dog loose and following the person in charge of him through the towns and on streets at such a distance that the person could not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““To be at large means to be free and unrestrained. A dog is quite generally obedient to its master and is not at large when accompanying or following its master, but under control.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alex v. Armstrong
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.