18 Cal. 2d 33 - Imperial Ice Co. v. Rossier’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 209 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 283 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably 36 Cal. 3d 752 - Seaman's Direct Buying Service, Inc. v. Standard Oil Co. (1984), 50 Cal. 3d 1118 - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Bear Stearns & Co. (1990)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 209 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Thornhill v. Alabama · Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Flint · Cumberland Glass Manufacturing Co. v. De Witt & Co. · Carlson v. People of State of California · Hornstein v. Podwitz
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 283 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if two parties have separate contracts with a third, each may resort to any legitimate means at his disposal to secure performance of his contract even though the necessary result will be to cause a breach of the other contract.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n action will lie for inducing breach of contract by a resort to means in themselves unlawful such as libel, slander, fraud, physical violence, or threats of such action. [Citations.] Most jurisdictions also hold that an action will he for inducing a breach of contract by the use of moral, social, or economic pressures, in themselves lawful, unless there is sufficient justification for such inducement. [Citations.] [f ] Such justification exists when a person induces a breach of contract to protect an interest that has greater social value than insuring the stability of the contract.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“an action will he for unjustifiably inducing a breach of contract.”
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.