Hicks v. Haight’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘But the servant who causes a breach of his master’s contract with a ■ third person seems to stand in a wholly different position. He is not a stranger. He is the alter ego of his master. His acts are in law the acts of his employer. In such a case it is the master himself, by his agent, breaking the contract he has made, and in my view an action against the agent under the Lumley v. Gye principle must therefore fail, just as it would fail if brought against the master himself for wrongfully procuring a breach of his own contract. * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Terry v. Zachry

2. ““If the plaintiff is right in his contention, it seems to follow that whenever either a managing director or a board of directors, or a manager or other official of a company, causes or procures a breach by that company of its contract with a third person, each director or official will be liable to an action for damages, upon the principle of Lum-ley v. Gye * * * as for a tortious act. So, too, with the manager or other agent of a private firm, who does the like thing. * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 181 F. Supp. 809 - Wilson & Co. v. United Packinghouse Wkrs. of America