Allen v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Gardner v. Martino (2009), Fell v. Rambo (2000)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 17 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Existence of a professional or business relationship[ ]; (2) intentional interference with that relationship or advantage; (3) by a third party; (4) accomplished through improper means or for an improper purpose; (5) a causal effect between the interference and the harm to the relationship or prospective-advantage; and (6) damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“may be actionable under a reasonable extension of the well-established tort known as intentional interference with economic relations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fell v. Rambo“[a] tort claim does not become a will contest simply because it arises out of facts relating to the making or unmaking of a will.”
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.