107 Ind. App. 503 - Wade v. Culp’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Wise v. Southern Pacific Co. (1963), Miller, Etc. v. Ortman, Etc. (1956)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 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 Hornstein v. Podwitz · Doremus v. Hennessy · Campbell v. . Gates · S. C. Posner Co. v. Jackson · Sorenson v. Chevrolet Motor 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The great weight of authority in this country and in England is to the effect that, if A. has a legal contract with B., either for the rendition of service or any other purpose, and C., having knowledge of the existence thereof, intentionally and knowingly, and without reasonable justification or excuse, induces B. to break the contract, by reason of which A. sustains damage, an action will lie by A. against C. to recover the same.... The action of C. is malicious, in that, with the knowledge of A.’s rights, he intentionally and knowingly and for unworthy or selfish purposes, destroys them by inducing B. to break his contract. It is a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse, and from this a malicious motive is to be inferred. This does not necessarily mean actual malice or ill will, but the intentional doing of a wrongful act without legal or social justification. The action is predicated, not on the intent to injure, but on the intentional interference, without justification, with A.’s contractual rights, with knowledge thereof. It is a legal wrong, and one who commits it, if damage be sustained, must answer therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Such conduct on the part of the appellants resulted in a loss to the appellee and them conduct was therefore wrongful and unlawful. The rule in such cases has been announced as follows: “Generally speaking, a combination for the purpose of causing a breach of contract is an unlawful conspiracy. A person who, by conspiring with another or by collusive agreement with him, assists him to violate his contract with a third person and to obtain the benefit of that contract for himself commits an actionable wrong.” 11 Amer.Juris. Sec. 50.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen one has knowledge of the contract rights of another, his wrongful inducement of a breach thereof is a willful destruction of the property of another and cannot be justified on the theory that it enhances and advances the business interests of the wrongdoer.” Id. at, 619, quoting Sorenson v. Chevrolet Motor Co., 171 Minn. 260 , 214 N.W. 754, 756 (1927). That case, however, involved inducing Wade, an employee who had been hired to develop an electric steak broiler, to”
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.