Decker v. Gammon’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2018
20 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The owner of wild beasts, or beasts that are in their nature vicious, is, under all circumstances, liable for injuries done by them.... 2. If domestic animals, such as oxen and horses, injure any one, ...if they are rightfully in the place where they do the mischief, the owner of such animals is not liable for such injury, unless he knew that they were accustomed to do mischief.... 3. The owner of domestic animals, if they are wrongfully in the place where they do any mischief, is liable for it, though he had no notice that they had been accustomed to do so before....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Byram v. Main
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.