Plotkin v. Joekel’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 133rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Coker v. Coker · National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh v. CBI Industries, Inc. · Randall's Food Markets, Inc. v. Johnson · DeSantis v. Wackenhut Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To establish ... tortious interference with prospective business relationships, a plaintiff must show that (1) there was a reasonable probability that the parties would have entered into a business relationship; (2) the' defendant committed an independently tortious or unlawful act that prevented the relationship from ’occurring; (3) the defendant either acted with a conscious desire to prevent the relationship from occurring or knew the interference was certain or substantially certain to occur as a result of the conduct; and (4) the plaintiff suffered actual harm or damages as a result of the defendant’s interference.””
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.