Beizer v. Goepfert’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 214 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Ramirez v. Health Net of the Northeast, Inc. (2008), Arway v. Bloom (1992)
2 district · 214 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · United States v. Euge · Zichichi v. Middlesex Memorial Hospital · Monroe v. Monroe · Wilcox Trucking, Inc. v. Mansour Builders, 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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“finder of fact is in a better position to determine the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be accorded their testimony.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage“[g]reat deference is given to the trial court's findings because the trial court is responsible for weighing the evidence and determining the credibility of witnesses.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage“The elements of tortious interference are the existence of a contractual or beneficial relationship, the defendant's knowledge of that relationship, the intent to interfere with it and the consequent actual loss suffered by the plaintiff.”
7 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.