Hamilton v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 1998
22 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 Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. · Space Aero Products Co. v. R. E. Darling Co. · Goodwin v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. · Twigg v. Ryland · May Co. v. Drury
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In an action such as the instant one, there are three elements which must be proven against a defendant in order to show negligence on his part: (1) owning or harboring of an animal; (2) with vicious propensities, (3) with knowledge (scienter) of its vicious propensities.”
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.