Pullan Ex Rel. Pullan v. Steinmetz’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2025
5 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 Weber, by and Through Weber v. Springville · Loveland v. Orem City Corp. · Whipple v. American Fork Irrigation Co. · Dolezal v. Carbrey · May Stores, Inc. v. Bishop
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[olne who keeps a domestic animal that possesses only those dangerous propensities that are normal to its class is required to know its normal habits and tendencies. He is therefore required to realize that even ordinarily gentle animals are likely to be dangerous under particular circumstances and to exercise reasonable care to prevent foreseeable harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Mateus“Every person owning or keeping a dog shall be lable in damages for injury committed by such dog, and it shall not be necessary in any action brought therefor to allege or prove that such dog was of a vicious or mischievous disposition or that the owner or keeper thereof knew that it was vicious or mischievous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Mateus“extend strict liability to owners and keepers of horses,”
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.