Owen v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 26 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Sterner v. Marathon Oil Co. (1989), United Truck Leasing Corp. v. Geltman (1990)
13 federal appellate · 26 district · 84 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Andrew Aikens v. State of Wisconsin No 3 Albert Huegin · Walker v. Cronin · Berry v. Donovan · Lindenbaum v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad · Plant v. Woods
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ne who, without a privilege to do so induces or otherwise purposely causes a third person not to (a) perform a contract with another, or (b) enter into or continue a business relation with another is liable to the other for the harm caused thereby.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“probable future business relationship from which there is a reasonable expectancy of financial benefit ....”
2 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.