Recio v. Evers’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2026
4 federal appellate · 18 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 DeLay First National Bank & Trust Co. v. Jacobson Appliance Co. · 203 W. Va. 135 - Tiernan v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. · George Fuller Co Division of Northrop Corporation v. Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine · 308 Ill. App. 3d 393 - Vickers v. Abbott Laboratories · Matheson v. Stork
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) the nature of the actor’s conduct, (b) the actor’s motive, (c) the interests of the other with which the actor’s conduct interferes, (d) the interests sought to be advanced by the actor, (e) the social interests in protecting the freedom of. action of the actor and the contractual interests of the other, (f) the proximity or remoteness of the actor’s conduct to the interference and (g) the relations between the parties.””
1 later decision 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.