Rome v. Archer

1964-01-14 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

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3 judgments have relied on it, across 1964–1989

first 1964 · last 1989 · busiest 1964 (1 judgments)

1989-12-18Leonard BARKAN, Plaintiff and Settlement Objector Below, Appellant, v. AMSTED INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED, Robert H. Wellington, Gordon R. Lohman, Warren W. Rasmussen, Edward J. Williams, Robert P. Reuss, Roger E. Anderson, O.C. Davis, Thomas L. Martin, Jr., Bert E. Phillips, Robert T. Powers and Donald E. Nordlund, Defendants and Settlement Proponents Below, Appellees, Enid Mindich, Harry Lewis, Joseph S. Blumenthal and Ernest Brooks, III, Plaintiffs and Settlement Proponents Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1986-03-10William J. POLK, Jr., Et Al., Objectors Below, Appellants, Miriam Gelband and Leo Kayser, III, Objectors Below, Appellants, Seagoing Uniform Corporation, Objector Below, Appellant, Mollie Pin, Objector Below, Appellant, Mandel, Lipton & Stevenson Profit Sharing Plan, Objector Below, Appellant, v. Howard GOOD, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellees, and Texaco, Inc., Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1964-11-17Hoffman v. DannSupreme Court of Delaware

What it rests on

1963-01-24Graham v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing CompanySupreme Court of Delaware 1962-09-10Saxe v. BradyCourt of Chancery of Delaware

16 point outside the corpus. Read from the text, but no judgment held here answers to them. They are counted rather than hidden: this corpus is a slice, not the law.

Departed from

No judgment recorded a departure from this one.

Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

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Most citations carry no word at all. The Court does not always say what it is doing when it cites one of its own judgments, and where it stayed silent nothing is inferred here.