17 Wash. App. 383 - Olson v. Scholes’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Birt v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. (2003), 104 Wash. 2d 105 - Family Medical Building, Inc. v. Department of Social & Health Services (1985)
3 federal appellate · 18 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 54 Wash. 2d 570 - Thorndike v. Hesperian Orchards, Inc. · Wild v. Rarig · 84 Wash. 2d 239 - King v. City of Seattle · Doremus v. Hennessy · 65 Wash. 2d 157 - Calbom v. Knudtzon
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the existence of a valid contractual relationship or business expectancy; (2) knowledge of the relationship or expectancy on the part of the interferor; (3) intentional interference inducing or causing a breach or termination of the relationship or expectancy; and (4) resultant damage to the party whose relationship or expectancy has been disrupted.”
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.