Cowan v. Carillo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he clear and unambiguous language of OCGA § 51-2-7 establishes that the vicious propensity of an animal may be proved by showing that the animal was required to be 'at heel or on a leash by an ordinance' of the applicable governmental body and that the animal at the time of the occurrence was not at heel or on a leash”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 343 Ga. App. 63 - MATTA-TRONCOSO Et Al. v. TYNER.

2. “A person who owns or keeps a vicious or dangerous animal of any kind and who, by careless management or by allowing the animal to go at liberty, causes injury to another person who does not provoke the injury by his own act may be liable in damages to the person so injured. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eshleman v. Key

3. “(1) the owner carelessly managed or allowed the animal to go at liberty; (2) the animal was vicious or unrestrained at the time of the injury in violation of a local ordinance requiring such restraint; and (3) the animal caused the injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 343 Ga. App. 63 - MATTA-TRONCOSO Et Al. v. TYNER.