Evans v. Litton’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2004
5 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 Holland v. Buckley · State ex rel. Ballard
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . Any citizen or officer may kill any dangerous or vicious dog, and no citizen or officer shall be liable to (sic) damages or to prosecution by reason of killing any dangerous or vicious dog."”
2 later decisions 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.