Connolly v. Labowitz’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2009
3 district · 4 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 Connick v. Myers · Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps · Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc. · Weinberger v. UOP, Inc. · 22 Cal. 3d 672 - Good Government Group of Seal Beach, Inc. v. Superior Court
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) [T]he reasonable probability of a business opportunity, (b) the intentional interference by defendant with that opportunity, (c) proximate causation, and (d) damages, all of which must be considered in light of a defendant’s privilege to compete or protect his business interests in a fair and lawful manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To be actionable a civil conspiracy must embody an underlying wrong which would be actionable in the absence of the conspiracy.”
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.