43 N.C. App. 400 - Griner v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2010
19 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 10 N.C. App. 22 - Patterson Ex Rel. Jones v. Reid · MORRIS SPEIZMAN COMPANY v. Williamson · 12 N.C. App. 342 - Miller Ex Rel. Yeager v. Snipes · Swain v. Tillett · Sink Ex Rel. Pullen v. Moore
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The liability of an owner for injuries committed by domestic animals, such as dogs, horses and mules, depends upon two essential facts: 1. The animal inflicting the injury must be dangerous, vicious, mischievous or ferocious, or one termed in the law as possessing a “vicious propensity.” 2. The owner must have actual or constructive knowledge of the vicious propensity, character and habits of the animal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he owner of a domestic animal is chargeable with knowledge of the general propensities of certain animals and he must exercise due care to prevent injury from reasonably anticipated conduct.”
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.