Thompson v. Allstate Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
476 F.2d 746 · 1973
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Whitinsville Plaza, Inc. v. Kotseas (1979), Saunders v. Superior Court (1994)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 Conley v. Gibson · American Well Works Company v. Layne & Bowler Company E · Brunswick Corp. v. Vineberg · Sparks v. McCreary · Birmingham Broadcasting Co. v. Bell
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A]s we read the cases, they have consistently held that, prima facie, a cause of action for intentional interference with another's business is established by showing: (1) an intentional act of interference and (2) some consequential harm to the plaintiff's business. See Sparks v. McCrary [ 156 Ala. 382 , 47 So. 332 ], supra; Carter v. Knapp Motor Co. [ 243 Ala. 600 , 11 So.2d 383 ], supra; Kelite Products v. Binzel, 5 Cir.1955, 224 F.2d 131 ."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a short and plain statement of the claim that will give the defendant fair notice of what the plaintiff's claim is and the grounds on which it rests.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim should not be granted 'unless it appears to a certainty that the plaintiff would be entitled to no relief under any set of facts which could be proven in support of his claim.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.