Griffiths v. Schafer’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 169 Ga. App. 167 - Abee v. Stone Mountain Memorial Ass'n · 218 Ga. App. 815 - Bartja v. National Union Fire Insurance · Abee v. Stone Mountain Memorial Ass'n · 185 Ga. App. 72 - Lundy v. Stuhr
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is in the common knowledge of the members of society that even domestic animals, when startled, are prone to defend themselves by biting. It is an unwise person who approaches an unknown dog and makes gestures toward that dog without first ascertaining the propensities of the dog.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“practically any dog will bite in certain circumstances and that particularly violent and aggressive breeds are more likely to bite and even to inflict severe wounds.”
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.