Cottrell v. Pawcatuck Company

1955-09-28 · Court of Chancery of Delaware · United States

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4 judgments have relied on it, across 1956–1974

first 1956 · last 1974 · busiest 1956 (2 judgments)

1974-01-10Louis S. GIMBEL, III, Plaintiff, v. the SIGNAL COMPANIES, INC., Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1971-06-18SINCLAIR OIL CORPORATION, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. Francis S. LEVIEN, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1956-12-21Helen E. Cottrell, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, vs. the Pawcatuck Company (Formerly the C. B. Cottrell & Sons Company), a Delaware Corporation (Known as the Old Company), Harris-Seybold Company, a Delaware Corporation, Donald C. Cottrell, Ridley Watts, Arthur M. Cottrell, Jr., Charles P. Cottrell, Jr., and the Cottrell Company, a Delaware Corporation (Known as the New Company), Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1956-06-08Sporborg v. City Specialty StoresCourt of Chancery of Delaware

What it rests on

1954-03-26Schiff v. RKO Pictures Corp.Court of Chancery of Delaware 1953-08-11Bennett v. Breuil Petroleum Corp.Court of Chancery of Delaware 1950-07-21Jacques Coe & Co. v. Minneapolis-Moline Co.Court of Chancery of Delaware

1 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

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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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