Carpenter v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Swartz v. United States Steel Corporation · 39 Ala. App. 652 - Randle v. Payne · 404 So. 2d 576 - Emerson v. Southern Ry. Co. · Price v. Southern Ry. Co. · 419 So. 2d 1340 - Scott v. Dunn
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) The owner of such livestock or animal being or running at large upon the premises of another or upon the public lands, roads, highways or streets in the State of Alabama shall be liable for all damages done to crops, shade or fruit trees or ornamental shrubs and flowers of any person, to be recovered before any court of competent jurisdiction; provided, that the owner of any stock or animal shall not be liable for any damages to any motor vehicle or any occupant thereof suffered, caused by or resulting from a collision with such stock or other animal, unless it be proven that such owner knowingly or wilfully put or placed such stock upon such public highway, road or street where such damages were occasioned.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“unless the owner knowingly or wilfully puts the livestock on the road”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brewer v. Atkinson
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.