Qer Inc v. J Hickerson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Mason v. Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (1997), Davis v. United States Postal Service (1998)
3 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 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 Kimble v. People · Hurd v. American Hoist & Derrick Co. · Anderson v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Louis Lobato v. Pay Less Drug Stores, Inc., a Corporation Abe B. Cohen, James L. Grady, Charles Finke, and Burt Rosenburg · National Independent Theatre Exhibitors, Inc. v. Buena Vista Distribution Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only if the evidence points but one way and is susceptible to no reasonable inference which may support the opposing party's position.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One who intentionally and improperly interferes with the performance of a contract (except a contract to marry) between another and a third person by inducing or otherwise causing the third person not to perform the contract, is subject to liability to the other for the pecuniary loss resulting to the other from the failure of the third person to perform the contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) the nature of the actor’s conduct, (b) the actor’s motive, (c) the interests of the other with which the actor’s conduct interferes, (d) the interests sought to be advanced by the actor, (e) the social interests in protecting the freedom of action of the actor and the contractual interests of the other, (f) the proximity or remoteness of the actor’s conduct to the interference and (g) the relations between the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.