Felder v. Anderson, Clayton & Co.

1960-03-24 · Court of Chancery of Delaware · United States

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4 judgments have relied on it, across 1968–1981

first 1968 · last 1981 · busiest 1968 (1 judgments)

1981-04-03Libby G. LYNCH, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. VICKERS ENERGY CORPORATION, Esmark, Inc., William A. Alexander, Richard J. Boushka, Edward J. Hudson, Donald P. Kelly, Robert D. Phillips, Stormy F. Smith and Jack A. Vickers, Defendants, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1980-02-20Edith K. BELL Et Al., Petitioners Below-Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. KIRBY LUMBER CORPORATION, Respondent Below-Appellee/Cross-AppellantSupreme Court of Delaware 1975-01-20UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC., Defendant Below-Appellant and Cross-Appellee, v. FRANCIS I. duPONT & CO., Et Al., Plaintiffs Below-Appellees and Cross-AppellantsSupreme Court of Delaware 1968-12-24DAVID J. GREENE AND CO. Et Al., Plaintiffs, v. DUNHILL INTERNATIONAL, INC., and A. G. Spalding & Bros., Inc., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware

What it rests on

1960-01-25Adams v. RC Williams & CompanyCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1956-06-08Sporborg v. City Specialty StoresCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1953-07-23Heller v. Munsingwear, Inc.Court of Chancery of Delaware 1950-06-08In the Matter of the Application of Tri-Continental Corporation, Petitioner Below, Appellant, vs. Stanley Battye, Central States Electric Corporation in Reorganization, Dreyfus & Co., Ilse Hirschmann, Otto Hirschmann, McDonnell & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, and Griffith Moore, Respondents Below, Appellees, for a Determination by an Appraiser to Be Appointed by the Chancellor, of the Value of the Stock of General Shareholdings Corporation Held by DefendantsSupreme Court of Delaware

4 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.