Willner v. Silverman’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Bagwell v. Peninsula Regional Medical Center (1995), Natural Design, Inc. v. Rouse Co. (1984)
3 federal appellate · 29 district · 41 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 Walker v. Cronin · Robertson v. Parks · Kimball v. Harman · A. R. Barnes & Co. v. Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 · Klingel's Pharmacy v. Sharp & Dohme
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) intentional and wilful acts; (2) calculated to cause damage to the plaintiffs in their lawful business; (3) done with the unlawful purpose to cause such damage and loss, without right or justifiable cause on the part of the defendants (which constitutes malice); and (4) actual damage and loss resulting.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Doe · Beane v. McMullen““[A]ny malicious interference with the business or occupation of another, if followed by damage, is an actionable wrong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beane v. McMullen“the law does not furnish a shield against the effects of fair and honest competition ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.