Champion v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2021
2 federal appellate · 19 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 131st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Brower v. United States · Cavnar v. Quality Control Parking, Inc. · La Sara Grain Co. v. First National Bank of Mercedes · Brown v. American Transfer & Storage Co. · Raymond v. Yarrington
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) a contract existing that was subject to interference; 2) the act of interference was willful and intentional; 3) the intentional act was a proximate cause of the plaintiff’s damages; and 4) actual damages or loss occurred.”
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.