Rice v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Ballou v. Sigma Nu General Fraternity (1986), Perlin v. Chappell (1957)
2 district · 34 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 Gardner v. . Black · 124 W. Va. 224 - Smith v. Whitlock · Lloyd v. . Bowen · Field v. North Coast Transportation Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This language implies knowledge, consent, or a willingness on the part of the owner for such domestic animals to run at large. The statute does not cover a situation where the owner has used ordinary care to keep his stock confined to the premises. 191 Va. 605 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'every person [must] exercise ordinary care in the use and maintenance of his own property to prevent injury to others.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.