Gerstner Electric, Inc. v. American Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.2d 790 · 1975
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2007
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · Downey v. United Weatherproofing, Inc. · Coonis v. Rogers · Beggs v. Universal CIT Credit Corporation · Warner v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To recover in Missouri on a claim for wrongful interference with a contract by inducing its breach, the wrongful act must be intentionally done. Beggs v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp., 409 S.W.2d 719, 722 (Mo.1966). There must be proof that the defendant not only intended to commit an act which is ascertained to be wrongful but also that he knew it was wrongful at the time he did it.” (emphasis added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient to warrant a finding of legal malice, which, under Missouri authorities, is the intentional doing of a wrongful act without justification or excuse.”
1 later decision 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.