Woolf v. Chalker’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Sentell v. New Orleans & Carrollton R. Co. (1897), St Louis Ry Co v. Mathews (1897)
1 federal appellate · 58 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A dog is an instrument for protection; a ferocious one is a dangerous instrument, and the keeping him on the premises to protect them against trespassers is unlawful, upon (152) the same principle that setting spring guns or concealed spears or placing poisonous food is unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It may be that if the injury was solely occasioned by the willfulness of the plaintiff, after warning, that may be a ground of defense by plea in confession and avoidance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brooks v. Taylor
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.