Smith v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1994
8 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 Santanello v. Cooper · Reid v. Nelson · 96 So. 2d 227 - Vandercar v. David · 211 So. 2d 606 - Brandeis v. Felcher · 56 So. 2d 127 - Romfh v. Berman
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.
“Where ... the damage results from some physical agency set into motion by a chain of events which may have been triggered by the presence of the dog, absolute liability should not be imposed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... Owners of dogs shall be liable for any damage done by their dogs ... to persons [emphasis supplied].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“where the dog takes no affirmative or aggressive action toward the injured party.”
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.