Hein v. Chrysler Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding employer not vicariously liable for employees malicious inducement of a breach of contract even though employees used employer’s business to induce breach because employees not acting within scope of employment
• \An employee who willfully and for his own purposes violates the property rights of another ... is not acting in the furtherance of his employer's business.\
• “An employee who willfully and for his own purposes violates the property rights of another ... is not acting in the furtherance of his employer’s business.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

30 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Robel v. Roundup Corp.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-12-12· cited 230×
• Calbom v. Knudtzon
  Washington Supreme Court· 1964-10-29· cited 134×
• JRS Products, Inc. v. Matsushita Electric Corp. of America
  California Court of Appeal· 2004-02-25· cited 121×
• Wise v. Southern Pacific Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1963-12-06· cited 118×
• Gazija v. Nicholas Jerns Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-12-11· cited 112×
• Worrie v. Boze
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1956-11-26· cited 100×
• Reninger v. State Dept. of Corrections
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-02-26· cited 98×
• Reninger v. Department of Corrections
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-02-26· cited 96×
• Scymanski v. Dufault
  Washington Supreme Court· 1971-12-16· cited 76×
• Dryden v. Tri-Valley Growers
  California Court of Appeal· 1977-01-18· cited 72×
• City of Seattle v. Blume
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-11-13· cited 71×
• Olympic Fish Products, Inc. v. Lloyd
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-05-22· cited 57×
• Kuehn v. White
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1979-09-17· cited 52×
• Daly v. Nau
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1975-12-31· cited 51×
• Worrick v. Flora
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1971-08-17· cited 40×
• Hickman v. Winston County Hosp. Bd.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-05-22· cited 38×
• Bratton v. Calkins
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1994-03-31· cited 21×
• Jassim Mohamed Thunayan Alghanim v. The Boeing Company
  Ninth Circuit· 1973-03-09· cited 19×
• Olson v. Scholes
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1977-04-25· cited 19×
• Malarkey Asphalt Co. v. Wyborney
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-12-18· cited 19×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miller v. Robertson
  Supreme Court· 1924-11-17· cited 293×
• Doremus v. Hennessy
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1898-10-24· cited 170×
• Matsuda v. Hammond
  Washington Supreme Court· 1913-12-27· cited 29×
• H. D. Watts Co. v. American Bond & Mortgage Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1929-06-05· cited 28×
• Chase v. Knabel
  Washington Supreme Court· 1907-06-22· cited 15×
• Gray v. Department of Labor & Industries
  Washington Supreme Court· 1953-10-29· cited 10×
• Langness v. Ketonen
  Washington Supreme Court· 1953-04-14· cited 8×
• Linck v. Matheson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1911-06-22· cited 7×
• Barnett v. Inland Motor Freight
  Washington Supreme Court· 1954-04-22· cited 6×