Doremus v. Hennessy’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably 109 Ill. App. 3d 596 - Martin v. Federal Life Insurance Co. (1982), 77 Ill. 2d 173 - Swager v. Couri (1979)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 126 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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 Carew v. Rutherford · Van Horn v. Van Horn · Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Bluhm
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * an act maliciously done, with the intent and purpose of injuring another, is not lawful competition.”
3 later decisions 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.