Gordon v. Noel’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2014
12 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 Sunkist Growers, Inc. v. Winckler & Smith Citrus Products Co. · E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Berkley & Co. · Georgia Power Co. v. Busbin · Brochu v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. · Asbill v. Housing Authority
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The plaintiff had a prospective [contract or business relationship] with a [third person], 2. The defendant knew of the prospective relationship. 3. The defendant intentionally and improperly interfered with the relationship by [set forth the particulars supported by the evidence], 4. a. The interference caused [the third person] not [to enter into or continue] the relationship [or] b. The interference prevented the plaintiff from [entering or continuing] the relationship. 5. The amount of damage.”
5 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.