Wiley v. Slater’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1939
9 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 Bennett v. Scutt
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so ; Let bears and lions growl and fight, ■ For ’tis their nature to. ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Whatever may have been the character and habits of the dog, there is no evidence that he was the aggressor or in the wrong in this particular fight. The plaintiff's dog may have provoked the quarrel and have caused the fight; and, if so, the owner of the victor dog, whoever he may be, cannot be made responsible for the consequences.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Strubing v. Mahar““It was one of their reserved rights, not surrendered when they entered into and became a part of the domestic institution, to settle and avenge, in their own way, all individual wrongs and insults, without regard to what Blackstone or any other jurist might write, speak or think of the ‘right of persons’ or ‘rights of things.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fowler v. Helck
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.