Woulfe v. D'Antoni’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1970
10 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 Johnson v. Butterworth · Serio v. American Brewing Co. · Bentz v. Page · Damonte v. Patton · Delisle v. Bourriague
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person is responsible for the damage he occasions not merely by his act, but by his negligence, his imprudence, or his want of skill.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“except where the master has turned loose a dangerous or noxious animal, for then he must pay for all the harm done, without being allowed to make the abandonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tillman v. Cook“"* * * it is clear that liability rests on two bases, namely: "1. Injury by an animal; and "2. Fault or negligence on the part of the owner."”
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.