1 Conn. App. 320 - Selby v. Pelletier’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably 53 Conn. App. 252 - Appleton v. Board of Education (1999), 101 Conn. App. 83 - American Diamond Exchange, Inc. v. Alpert (2007)
6 district · 38 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 Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester · Appliances, Inc. v. Yost · Damora v. Christ-Janer · Grinold v. Grinold · Harry A. Finman & Son, Inc. v. Connecticut Truck & Trailer Service Co.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he general rule is that the agent may not be charged with having interfered with a contract of the agent's principal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[lit is essential to a cause of action for unlawful interference with business that it appear that, except for the tortious interference of the defendant, there was a reasonable probability that the plaintiff would have entered into a contract or made a profit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“One who intentionally and improperly interferes with the performance of a contract (except a contract to marry) between another and a third person by inducing or otherwise causing the third person not to perform the contract, is subject to liability to the other for the pecuniary loss resulting to the other from the failure of the third person to perform the contract.”
2 later decisions 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.