Making Ends Meet, Inc. v. Cusick’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2020
2 federal appellate · 1 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 508 So. 2d 380 - McCurdy v. Collis · 498 So. 2d 683 - Genet Co. v. Annheuser-Busch, Inc. · 68 So. 2d 553 - Kanter v. Safran · 229 So. 2d 850 - Stirling v. Sapp · Hoffman v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In those circumstances in which there is a qualified privilege to interfere with a business relationship, the privilege carries with it the obligation to employ means that are not improper. In other words, the privilege does not encompass the purposeful causing of a breach of contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“actions were sufficiently egregious to overcome the immunity afforded”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was exercising the option for a proper purpose.”
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.