Decker v. McSorley’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2006
1 federal appellate · 14 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 Smith v. Milwaukee Builders' & Traders' Exchange · Randall v. Northwestern Telegraph Co. · Potter v. Chicago & North-Western Railway Co. · Decker v. Gammon · Baldwin v. Ensign
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was competent, and in fact necessary, therefore, for the-plaintiff to show in some way that the horse was at large with the knowledge and assent or permission of the owner. It was- a case where the knowledge or intent of the defendant was in question, or, perhaps, more accurately, where it was necessary to show that the act in question was not accidental; and in such cases the rule is quite well settled that similar acts, though collateral in their nature, may be shown as tending to throw light on the knowledge or intent of the party.” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Decker v. McSorley“An animal which is unattended and untethered in the street is as much at large when in front of its master's premises as in any other part of the street.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.