Searcy v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2011
8 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 Parker v. Highland Park, Inc. · Missouri Pacific Railroad v. American Statesman · Carter v. William Sommerville and Son, Inc. · Alphine Telephone Corp. v. McCall · Sun Oil Co. v. Massey
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The owner of a domestic animal is not liable for injuries caused by it in a place where it has a right to be unless the animal is of known vicious propensities or the owner should know of the vicious or unruly nature of the animal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunnings v. Castro“to require an owner of a dog to maintain physical control over it or to prevent it from roaming the sidewalks or streets.”
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.