Merritt v. Matchett’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 1974
24 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 Reynolds v. St. Louis Transit Co. · Dickson v. . McCoy · Twigg v. Ryland · Staetter v. McArthur · Reynolds v. Hussey
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury are instructed that what is meant by the term ‘a vicious propensity’ in an animal is such a propensity that the dog might attack or injure the safety of persons without being provoked so to do.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Melicker v. Sedlacek
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.