Henry v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 1980
11 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 Spring Company v. Edgar · 37 Tenn. App. 371 - Monday v. Millsaps · 30 Tenn. App. 390 - Lackey v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. · Le Forest v. Tolman · Godeau v. Blood
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Rule Stated The owner or keeper of domestic animals is liable for injuries inflicted by them only where he has been negligent, the animals were wrongfully in the place where they inflicted the injuries, or the injuries are the result of known vicious tendencies or propensities. A person has a right to own or keep domestic animals of any kind provided they are so restrained as not to expose others engaged in their ordinary or lawful pursuits to danger. The owner or keeper of a domestic animal is bound to take notice of the general propensities of the class to which it belongs, and also of any particular propensities peculiar to the animal itself of which he has knowledge or is put on notice; and in so far as such propensities are of a nature likely to cause injury he must exercise reasonable care to guard against them and to prevent injuries which are reasonably to be anticipated from them. Generally, however, if there has been no negligence in the performance of this duty (see infra sec. 149), and the injuries have not been inflicted in a place where the animal is wrongfully present (see infra sec. 148), or are not the result of a vicious or mischievous propensity of which he has knowledge or notice, the owner or keeper of a domestic animal of a species not inclined to do mischief is not liable for injuries committed by it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘ ‘ There was material evidence of ownership, dangerous proclivities, and scienter.””
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.