Ellington v. Strader’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(1) No person shall permit any cattle owned by him or under his control or in his custody, to run at large. “(2) If any damage is committed by cattle permitted to run at large, the owner of the cattle shall be liable for all damages,” etc.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Campbell v. White · Sparks v. Doe

2. ““After the plaintiffs established that the accident happened and offered proof that the defendant owned the guilty cow, it seems to us that it would not be unreasonable to require the owner of the cow, who had peculiar means of access to the facts as to how the cow got out, to make those facts known to the court. Such procedure is much more logical and sensible than to require the plaintiffs to offer proof as to how the cow escaped.” Id., 285 S.W.2d 498 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rankin v. Blue Grass Boys Ranch, Inc.