Erickson v. Magill’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2005
17 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 Hagar v. Mobley · BOARD OF TRUSTEES, ETC. v. Holso · Cody v. Atkins · Carey v. Jackson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the evidence is such that without weighing the credibility of the witnesses, or otherwise considering the weight of the evidence, there can be but one conclusion reasonable persons could have reached * * *.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““(1) [T]he existence of a valid contractual relationship or business expectancy; “(2) knowledge of the relationship or expectancy on the part of the interferor; “(3) intentional interference inducing or causing a breach or termination of the relationship or expectancy; and “(4) resultant damage to the party whose relationship or expectancy has been disrupted.””
2 later decisions 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.