Murphy v. Buonato’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Tryon v. Town of North Branford (2000), Stokes v. Lyddy (2003)
47 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 State v. Geisler · State v. Oquendo · Kimberly-Clark Corp. v. Dubno · Sportsmen's Boating Corp. v. Hensley · Weisman v. Kaspar
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any person, other than the owner, harboring or having in his possession any dog,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If any dog does any damage to either the body or property of any person, the owner or keeper ... shall be liable for such damage, except when such damage has been occasioned to the body or property of a person who, at the time such damage was sustained, was committing a trespass or other tort, or was teasing, tormenting or abusing such dog....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]his court's task is to determine whether the conclusions of fact and law by the referee are legally and logically correct and whether they find support in the facts found by the referee.”
2 later decisions 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.