Sharp v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 2016
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Farrior v. Payton · Alta Industries, Ltd. v. Hurst · Price-Orem Investment Co. v. Rollins, Brown & Gunnell, Inc. · Cornia v. Wilcox · Reeves v. Gentile
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person owning or keeping a dog shall be liable in damages for injury committed by such dog, and it shall not be necessary in any action brought therefor to allege or prove that such dog was of a vicious or mischievous disposition or that the owner or keeper thereof knew that it was vicious or mischievous....”
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.