Briley v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 1993 · most notably Holland v. Buckley (1974), Boyer v. Seal (1989)
26 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 Vredenburg v. Behan · 57 So. 2d 251 - Raziano v. TJ James & Co. · Willis v. Schuster · 75 So. 2d 559 - Thomas v. Wright · Briley v. Mitchell
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he owner of an animal is answerable for the damage he has caused....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Boyer v. Seal · Burns v. Ma Gleason“[T]he wild deer may have, to some extent, assumed the appearance of a tame and domesticated animal prior to its attack upon plaintiff. . . . Nor does it matter that an animal of this kind may be to some extent tame and domesticated; the natural wildness and ferocity of his nature but sleeps, and is liable to be awakened at any moment, suddenly and unexpectedly, under some provocation, as was the case in this instance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Every act whatever of man that causes damage to another, obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it; * * *." (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.