341 So. 2d 116 - Clark v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1993
4 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 Elliott v. Kitchens
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The owner of such livestock or animal being or running at large upon the premises of another or upon the public lands, roads, highways or streets in the state of Alabama shall be liable for all damages done to crops, shade or fruit trees or ornamental shrubs and flowers or any person, to be recovered before any court of competent jurisdiction; ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Monfee v. Seymore“to knowingly, voluntarily, *Page 905 negligently, or wilfully permit . . . livestock . . . to go at large . . . either upon the premises of another or upon . . . streets in . . . Alabama”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must have been shown to be negligent in transporting his bull, or negligent in permitting him to escape”
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.