Prince v. Zazove’s Empirical Analysis
959 F.2d 1395 · 1992
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Harriston v. Chicago Tribune Co. (1993), Harrison v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. (1992)
16 federal appellate ·
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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hanna v. Plumer · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. · Lohorn v. Michal · Musikiwamba v. Essi, Inc.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party who interferes with another's contract is nonetheless privileged from liability where the party acts `to protect a conflicting interest which is considered to be of equal value or greater value than that accorded the contractual rights involved.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Us, 904 F.2d at 1172, is the precise language of Judge Cummings in Gasbarro v. Lever Brothers Co., 490 F.2d 424, 426 (7th Cir.1973): 44”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Prince v. Zazove“participated in the conduct giving rise to that liability.”
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.