SUMMA CORPORATION and William R. Lummis, Delaware Ancillary Administrator of the Estate of Howard R. Hughes, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., Plaintiff Below, Appellee

1988-04-04 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

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2026-07-17Bobby Sarnevesht v. Triller Group Inc.Court of Chancery of Delaware 2015-11-30RBC CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC, Defendant Below, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Joanna JERVIS, Plaintiff Below, Appellee/Cross-AppellantSupreme Court of Delaware 2005-08-01MONTGOMERY CELLULAR HOLDING CO., INC., Palmer Wireless Holdings, Inc., and Price Communications Wireless, Inc., Respondents-Below, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Gerhard Frank DOBLER, Chap Cell, Inc., Grace M. Kittrell, GTRW Partnership, Gary McKee, James E. Bryant, Lloyd E. Dawson, Gauld & Enschen Partnership, John Brown, Harold Swart and Essex County Cellular G.P., Petitioners Below, Appellees/Cross-AppellantsSupreme Court of Delaware 2002-10-11GOTHAM PARTNERS, L.P., Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. HALLWOOD REALTY PARTNERS, L.P., Hallwood Realty Corporation, the Hallwood Group Incorporated, Anthony J. Gumbiner and William L. Guzzetti, Defendants Below, Appellees/Cross-AppellantsSupreme Court of Delaware

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1985-05-09Emanuel G. ROSENBLATT, Joseph Gruss, Carolyn Skelly Burford, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. GETTY OIL COMPANY, Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1984-03-01Senior ARONSON, Et Al., Defendants Below, Appellants, v. Harry LEWIS, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1983-02-01William B. WEINBERGER, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. UOP, INC., Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 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 1978-08-14Philip L. MOSKOWITZ, Trustee, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF WILMINGTON, Now Known as the City of Wilmington, Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1977-05-10TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., Plaintiff, v. SUMMA CORPORATION and William R. Lummis, Delaware Ancillary Administrator of the Estate of Howard R. Hughes, DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1972-01-04Theodore LEVITT Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellees and Cross-Appellants, v. John A. BOUVIER, Jr., Defendant Below, Appellant and Cross-Appellee, and American Mushroom Corp., a Delaware Corporation, Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1971-06-18SINCLAIR OIL CORPORATION, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. Francis S. LEVIEN, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1952-11-18Robert D. Sterling, Ruth L. Sterling, Edward Sterling, Oliver Sterling, Elizabeth Parks Sterling, Realty Investing Company, Cathedral Estates, Inc., Charles Kimmelman, Milton A. Kimmelman, Allenhurst Realties, Inc., Rhinelander Improvement Co., Inc., Helen Kimmelman, Ida Kimmelman, Alma S. Porter and Ruth S. Frost, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, vs. Mayflower Hotel Corporation and Hilton Hotels Corporation, Each a Corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme 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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