Meyer v. Enoch’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Holloway v. Skinner (1995), Tauchert v. Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis (1993)
1 district · 33 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 Community Title Co. v. Roosevelt Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · Landmark North County Bank & Trust Co. v. National Cable Training Centers, Inc. · Snowden v. Northwest Missouri State University · Lick Creek Sewer Systems, Inc. v. Bank of Bourbon · Hanrahan v. Nashua Corp.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Improper means, for purposes of intentional interference with contract, are those means which are “independently wrongful, notwithstanding injury caused by the interference.” Community Title \Co. v. Roosevelt Federal Sav. and Loan Ass’n], supra, 796 S.W.2d [369] at 373 [(Mo. 1990) ]. Examples of such means are wrongful acts recognized by statute or common law such as misrepresentation of fact, threats, violence, defamation, and restraint of trade. Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A corporate officer, acting within his or her authority, is privileged to induce a breach of a corporate contract provided that he or she uses no improper means, acts in good faith to protect the corporate interest and does not act out of self interest.”
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.