Weiss v. Wiederlight’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
34 district · 383 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 427 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Gupta v. New Britain General Hospital (1996), Larsen Chelsey Realty Co. v. Larsen (1995)
34 district · 383 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 Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester · Conaway v. Prestia · Blake v. Levy · Cavallo v. Derby Savings Bank · Buckman v. People Express, Inc.
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 427 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This element may be satisfied by proof that the defendant was guilty of fraud, misrepresentation, intimidation or molestation . . . or that the defendant acted maliciously.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] claim is made out [only] when interference resulting in injury to another is wrongful by some measure beyond the fact of the interference itself.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“on a plaintiff to allege some recognizable cause of action in his complaint.”
17 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.