Swaney v. Crawley’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2005
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Gardiner Dairy Co. · North v. Johnson · Twitchell v. Glenwood-Inglewood Co. · Carsten v. Northern Pacific Railroad · Faunce v. Searles
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“damages for interference with contract are limited to those that might have been recovered for a breach of the contract itself.”
3 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.