Sink Ex Rel. Pullen v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably 12 N.C. App. 342 - Miller Ex Rel. Yeager v. Snipes (1971), Swain v. Tillett (1967)
39 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 Spring Company v. Edgar · Raper v. McCRORY-McLELLAN CORPORATION · Hill Ex Rel. Hill v. Moseley · Crowley v. Groonell · Forgy v. Schwartz
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of the liability of the owner of the [animal] is . . . not the motive of the [animal] but whether the owner should know from the [animal’s] past conduct that he is likely, if not restrained, to do an act from which a reasonable person, in the position of the owner, could foresee that an injury to the person or property of another would be likely to result.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) that the animal was dangerous, vicious, mischievous, or ferocious, or one termed in law as possessing a vicious propensity; and (2) that the owner or keeper knew or should have known of the animal's vicious propensity, character, and habits.”
2 later decisions 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.