Groner v. Hedrick’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Farrior v. Payton (1977), 344 Pa. Super. 526 - Crance v. Sohanic (1985)
27 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 Andrews v. Smith Et Ux. · Owen v. Hampson · 122 Cal. App. 635 - Hicks v. Sullivan · Mercer v. Marston · Rutovitsky v. Magliocco
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A large, strong, and overly friendly dog may be as dangerous as a vicious one, and one recital of the dog’s behaviour at home is enough to bring knowledge to his owners’ when considered together with its size and their apparent knowledge that it might jump up on people”.”
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.