William B. WEINBERGER and Edward U. Notz, Plaintiffs, v. UOP, INC., the Signal Companies, Inc., and Sigco Incorporated, Defendants

1986-07-11 · Court of Chancery of Delaware · United States

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first 1989 · last 1997 · busiest 1989 (1 judgments)

1997-05-27ARBITRIUM (CAYMAN ISLANDS) HANDELS AG and Miklos Vendel, Plaintiffs, v. H. Frederick JOHNSTON, Sandra Spillane and Technicorp International II, Inc., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1996-08-26Edward O. GOODRICH, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. E.F. HUTTON GROUP, INC., and E.F. Hutton Group & Company, Inc., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1989-07-03TANDYCRAFTS, INC., R.E. Cox, III, Roger A. Dickinson, Kenneth L. Gregson, William H. Michero, Joe K. Pace, Robert Schutts, and John A. Wilson, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. INITIO PARTNERS, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware

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1983-02-01William B. WEINBERGER, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. UOP, INC., Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1982-09-15CM & M GROUP, INC., Defendant Below, Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. Thomas J. CARROLL, Plaintiff Below, Appellee, Cross-AppellantSupreme Court of Delaware 1970-01-26MILLS Et Al. v. ELECTRIC AUTO-LITE CO. Et Al.Supreme Court of the United States 1953-03-27Bertha E. Maurer, vs. International Re-Insurance Corporation, a Corporation Organized and Existing Under the Laws of the State of Delaware. Appeal of William Prickett From the Order of the Chancellor Dated January 27, 1953, on the Petition of William Prickett for an Allowance Out of the Defendant’s Estate. AND Cross-Appeal of Arthur G. Logan and William D. Denney, Receivers of International Re-Insurance Corporation, From a Part of the Order of the Chancellor of the State of Delaware Dated January 27, 1953, on the Petition of William Prickett for an Allowance Out of the Receivership EstateSupreme Court of Delaware

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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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