Williams v. Ashcraft’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Schmitz v. Smentowski (1990), Texas Beef Cattle Co. v. Green (1996)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 35 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 55 Cal. 2d 224 - Lipman v. Brisbane Elementary School District · 18 Cal. 2d 33 - Imperial Ice Co. v. Rossier · Wolf v. Perry · Zoby v. American Fidelity Co. · Tipton v. Burson
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who, by asserting in good faith a legally protected interest of his own or threatening in good faith to protect the interest by appropriate means, intentionally causes a third person not to perform an existing contract or enter into a prospective contractual relation with another does not interfere improperly with the other’s relation if the actor believes that his interest may otherwise be impaired or destroyed by the performance of the contract or transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“interference with the business relations of another.”
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.