Morgan v. Kroupa’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2017
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 Economou v. Carpenter · Riker v. Hooper · Cameron v. Double A. Services, Inc. · Boothe v. Fitzpatrick · Chaffee v. Harrington
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.
“a pet is not just a thing but occupies a special place somewhere in between a person and a piece of personal property,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[h]owever strong the emotional attachments between pets and humans, courts simply cannot evaluate the `best interests' of an animal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“diligently attempted to locate the dog's owner and responsibly sheltered and cared for the animal for over a year”
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.