Martin v. Wing’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2003
1 district · 16 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 84 Wash. 2d 239 - King v. City of Seattle · 65 Wash. 2d 157 - Calbom v. Knudtzon · Pope v. Garrett · 84 Wash. 2d 271 - Leschi Improvement Council v. Washington State Highway Commission · 80 Wash. 2d 77 - Scymanski v. Dufault
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who intentionally and improperly interferes with another’s prospective contractual relation (except a contract to marry) is subject to liability to the other for the pecuniary harm resulting from loss of the benefits of the relation, whether the interference consists of “(a) inducing or otherwise causing a third person not to enter into or continue the prospective relation or “(b) preventing the other from acquiring or continuing the prospective relation.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““In this case, the Plaintiffs have the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence the following: “(1) The existence of a valid contractual relationship; “(2) knowledge of the contractual relationship on the part of the Defendant; and “(3) intentional and improper interference by the inducing or otherwise causing a breach of the relationship; “(4) which resulted in damage to the Plaintiffs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"In Wyoming the party has the right to be free from the intentional interference with the right to conduct negotiations that have a reasonable probability of resulting in a contract."”
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.