Straube v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Blake v. Levy (1983), United Truck Leasing Corp. v. Geltman (1990)
4 federal appellate · 14 district · 47 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.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]ot only * * * that defendant intentionally interfered with his business relationship but also that defendant had a duty of non-interference; i.e., that he interfered for an improper purpose rather than for a legitimate one * * *. Therefore, a case is made out which entitles plaintiff to go to the jury only `when interference resulting in injury to another is wrongful by some measure beyond the fact of the interference itself. '”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“interference is substantially certain to occur from [the] action or is a necessary consequence thereof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“discussions at such committee meetings, to be of any value, must be frank, even brutal ....”
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.