Watson v. Settlemeyer’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Jet Courier Service, Inc. v. Mulei (1989), Idaho First National Bank v. Bliss Valley Foods, Inc. (1992)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 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 Uinta Oil Refining Co. v. Ledford · Order of Railway Conductors v. Jones · Credit Investment & Loan Co. v. Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. · Baum v. Rock · Bardahl Manufacturing Corp. v. District Court
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Though [the third party] may have had the right to terminate [the plaintiffs] oral contract at will, ... [the defendant] had no right to induce such an act or to intentionally interfere between [the third party] and [the plaintiff] by promoting his purpose and intention to take over if [the third party] was successful in ousting [the plaintiff].”
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.