Muller v. . McKesson’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably McFarlane v. City of Niagara Falls (1928), 76 Wash. 2d 398 - Johnston v. Ohls (1969)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 21 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a person, with full knowledge of the evil propensities of an animal, wantonly excites him, <5r voluntarily or unnecessarily puts himself in the way of such animal, he would be adjudged to have brought the injury upon himself, and ought not to be entitled to recover. In such a case it cannot be said, in a legal sense, that the keeping of the animal, which is the gravamen of the offense, produced the injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schilling v. Smith““To enable the owner of such an animal to interpose this defense, acts should be proved, with notice of the character of the animal, which would establish that the person injured voluntarily brought the calamity upon himself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schilling v. Smith
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.