Conrad v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2010
4 district · 20 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 Blake v. Levy · Mather v. Griffin Hospital · Associated Investment Co. Ltd. Partnership v. Williams Associates IV · Curry v. Burns · Kelley Property Development, Inc. v. Town of Lebanon
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The necessary elements of a cause of action in tortious interference with business relations are the existence of a business relationship, an intentional and improper interference with that relationship and a resulting loss of benefits of the relationship.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Connecticut has long recognized a cause of action for tortious interference with business relations.”
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.