State v. Niles’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1993
2 district · 9 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 Geer v. State of Connecticut · Ex parte Maier · Wilson v. Board of Trustees · Phelps v. . Racey · Magner v. People
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person can acquire an absolute property in animals ferae naturae. The ownership of such animals is, at most, a qualified one. They belong to no persons in particular. As Blackstone says (2 Com. 394): “A man may, lastly, have a qualified property in animals ferae naturae * * *; that is, he may have the privilege of hunting, taking, and killing them, in exclusion of other persons. Here he has a transient property in these animals, usually called game, so long as they continue within his liberty, and may restrain any stranger from taking them therein; but the instant they depart into any other liberty this qualified property ceases.””
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.