Richards v. Sanderson’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2015
20 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 Buford v. Houtz · Lazarus v. Phelps · The Josefa Segunda · Pace v. Potter · Morris v. Fraker
Most-quoted passages
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““One who turns his cattle out to graze, unrestrained, upon lands where he has a right to turn them, knowing that they will probably wander on the unenclosed premises of another, is under no obligation to prevent them entering upon such premises, and if they do so enter through following their natural instincts, he is not responsible for the damages occasioned thereby. Martin v. Platte Valley Sheep Co.,” ( 12 Wyo. 432 , 76 Pac. 571 , 78 Pac. 1093 ). “This proposition is clearly applicable to the case of one who does no more than turn his cattle upon the public domain to graze, even though he knows that, following their natural instincts, they may wander' upon the unenclosed lands of his neighbor. The plaintiff did turn his cattle upon public domain, in the near vicinity of lands belonging to the defendants. One-half of the territory from which they were driven either belonged to the plaintiff, or was government land. The other half belonged to the defendants. The plaintiff may have had good reason to believe that his cattle would wander upon the lands of the defendants. This would be natural for the cattle to do. The lands embracing the public domain and that of the defendants were alternate sections covering a large area. He had a right to place them on the public domain or his own land; was under no obligation to restrain them from going upon the lands of the defendants; and therefore he would not be responsible to the latter if they did. Such a case is entirely different fr”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[it is well settled that the affidavit of a juror cannot be received to impeach a verdict”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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