Greenspan v. Osheroff’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Fox v. Deese (1987), Commercial Business Systems, Inc. v. BellSouth Services, Inc. (1995)
12 federal appellate · 41 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 Fuentes v. Shevin · Leonard v. Counts · Horne v. Holley · United States v. Ragsdale · Sutton v. Sutton
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the fact-finder is satisfied ... that the defendant's primary and overriding purpose is to injure his victim ... [and that purpose is] motivated by ... ill-will, the element of malice ... is established, notwithstanding any additional motives entertained by the defendant to benefit himself.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) a combination of two or more persons for the purpose of willfully and maliciously injuring plaintiff in his business, and (2) resulting damage to plaintiff.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that where one person sustains a fiduciary relation to another he can not acquire an interest in the subject matter of the relationship adverse to such other party.”
4 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.