Swain v. Tillett’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 10 N.C. App. 22 - Patterson Ex Rel. Jones v. Reid (1970), Farrior v. Payton (1977)
40 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 · Smith v. Royer · Brice v. . Bauer · Teague v. Duke Power Company · Shelby Iron Co. v. Morrow
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The word ‘keep’ as applied to animals, has a peculiar signification. It means ‘to tend; to feed; to pasture; to board; to maintain; to supply with necessaries of life.’ ” To keep implies “the exercise of a substantial number of the incidents of ownership by one who, though not the owner, assumes to act in his stead.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The word “keep,” as applied to animals, has a peculiar significance. It means “to tend; to feed; to pasture; to board; to maintain; to supply with necessaries of life.” To keep implies “the exercise of a substantial number of the incidents of ownership by one who, though not the owner, assumes to act in his stead.””
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.