49 N.C. App. 475 - State v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2008
10 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 Sentell v. New Orleans & Carrollton R. Co. · State v. Hammonds · State v. Blackwell · State v. Hammonds · State v. . Lueders
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Originally all the animals which are now used by man were wild. One after another they have become domesticated, and subject to his control, ownership, and use. As time progressed they gradually CT Page 2039 lost their character of wildness, and became more and more subject to mankind, and more and more regarded as ordinary property. At this day no one would contend that a horse was not the subject of absolute property because his ancestors were originally wild; and the same may be said of other animals now thoroughly recognized as domestic.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he dog is of a noble, free nature, yet is domesticated and dedicated to the well-being of people of all races.”
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.