Los Angeles Airways, Inc. v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
687 F.2d 321 · 1982
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Jones v. Union Pacific Railroad (1992), Trepanier v. Getting Organized, Inc. (1990)
7 federal appellate · 7 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Griffin v. United States · 14 Cal. 3d 815 - Buckaloo v. Johnson · 18 Cal. 2d 33 - Imperial Ice Co. v. Rossier · Herron v. State Farm Mutual Insurance
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The privilege exists whenever a person induces a breach of contract through lawful means in order to protect an interest that has a greater social value than the mere stability of the particular contract in question, (emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The goal of the privilege is promoted by protecting advice that is motivated, even in part, by a good faith intent to benefit the principal's interest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A business advisor may counsel his principal to breach a contract that he reasonably believes to be harmful to his principal's best interests.”
3 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.