Devincenzi v. Faulkner’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2005
16 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 156 Cal. App. 2d 576 - Shehtanian v. Kenny · Blythe v. City & County of San Francisco · People v. Rubio · 26 Cal. App. 676 - Sabin v. Smith · 49 Cal. App. 685 - People v. Purio
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“privileged to destroy [or injure] an animal for the purpose of defending himself or third persons against harm threatened by the animal, (a) if its actions led him to know or reasonably believe that the animal would inflict such harm and (b) the destruction [or injury] was reasonable in view of the gravity of the harm threatened, and (c) the person reasonably believed the harm could only be prevented by immediate destruction [or injury] of the animal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grizzle v. State
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.