41 So. 2d 662 - State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The wild animals at large within the border of a sovereign State are owned by the State as distinguished from its proprietary capacity. These wild animals are not subject to private ownership so long as they remain wild and unconfined, but such animals become property when removed from their natural liberty and made the subject of man’s dominion. It will be observed that animals ferae naturae become property, and entitled to protection as such, when the owner has them in his actual possession, custody or control and usually this is accomplished by taming, domesticating or confining them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sutton v. State

2. “* * * the management, restoration, conservation, and regulation, of the birds, game, fur-bearing animals, and fresh-water fish of the State of Florida, and the acquisition, establishment, control, and management, of hatcheries, sanctuaries, refuges, reservations * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 155 So. 2d 790 - Alford v. Finch