Round v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1981
12 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 Texeira v. Sundquist · Fallon v. O'Brien · Howland v. Cressy · Albro v. Matteson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Ojrdinarily the mere presence of a horse going loose and unattended on the highway is prima facie evidence of the negligence of the owner unless he rebuts it. That case [Fallon v. O’Brien ] was decided many years ago when the speed and volume of highway traffic was not to be compared with what it is today on a modern four-lane highway such as the one which is involved in the case at bar.” Round v. Burns, 77 R.I. at 139 , 74 A.2d at 863 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. Baird““ * * * ordinarily the mere presence of a horse going loose and unattended on the highway is prima facie evidence of the negligence of the owner unless he rebuts it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'CONNOR v. Black
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.