Buster v. George W. Moore, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably White v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. (2004), Meuser v. Federal Express Corp. (2009)
4 federal appellate · 19 district · 60 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 Rosenberger v. Rector & Visitors of University of Virginia · Slaney v. Westwood Auto, Inc. · Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Markets, Inc. · G.S. Enterprises, Inc. v. Falmouth Marine, Inc. · Starr v. Fordham
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by itself, a threat to use lawful means to reach an intended result is not actionable under [the MCRA].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the defendant knowingly and for an improper purpose or by improper means induced a party to breach a contract or not to enter into or continue a business relationship, resulting in damage”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“actionable under the act unless it were accomplished by means of one of these three constraining elements.”
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.