Harrington v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1955
1 district · 7 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.
““It seems impossible in the light of these legislative and judicial expressions to decide that a dog is not property, nor a thing of value. And while the common law is continued in force in this state it is only ‘in aid of the general statutes,’ and as modified by constitutional and statutory laws, judicial decisions and the conditions and wants of the people.” (Page 484.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Seaverns““It seems impossible in the light of these legislative and judicial expressions to decide that a dog is not property, nor a thing of value. ... We are constrained therefore to hold that a dog is property; that the stealing of one is larceny; and that words charging the stealing of a dog are actionable per se.” (p. 484.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Steinrauf
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.