Thompson v. Bosswick’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Gallo v. Prudential Residential Services, Ltd. Partnership
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nly a stranger to a contract, such as a third party, can be held liable for tortious interference with the contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Popat v. Levy · Culwick v. Wood
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.