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Louis S. GIMBEL, III, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. the SIGNAL COMPANIES, INC., Et Al., Defendants Below, Appellees

1974-02-07 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

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1996-04-10Merle THORPE, Jr., by the Executor of His Estate, Peter M. CASTLEMAN, and Foundation for Middle East Peace, a District of Columbia Corporation, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. CERBCO, INC., Robert W. Erikson and George Wm. Erikson, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1991-06-04Charles M. OBERLY, III, Attorney General of the State of Delaware, Allan P. Kirby, Jr., Grace K. Culbertson, and Ann K. Kirby, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. Fred M. KIRBY, II, Walker D. Kirby, Fred M. Kirby, III, S. Dillard Kirby, Alice K. Horton, Jefferson W. Kirby, and F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, Appellees, v. Allan P. KIRBY, Jr., Grace K. Culbertson, and Ann K. Kirby, Cross-Claim-Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1987-11-18IVANHOE PARTNERS, a Texas General Partnership, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. NEWMONT MINING CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Et Al., Defendants Below, Appellees. in Re NEWMONT MINING CORP. SHAREHOLDERS LITIGATIONSupreme Court of Delaware 1986-03-13REVLON, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Michel C. Bergerac, Simon Aldewereld, Sander P. Alexander, Jay I. Bennett, Irving J. Bottner, Jacob Burns, Lewis L. Glucksman, John Loudon, Aileen Mehle, Samuel L. Simmons, Ian R. Wilson, Paul P. Woolard, Ezra K. Zilkha, Forstmann Little & Co., a New York Limited Partnership, and Forstmann Little & Co. Subordinated Debt and Equity Management Buyout Partnership-II, a New York Limited Partnership, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. MacANDREWS & FORBES HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1986-01-06Hanson Trust Plc, Hscm Industries Inc., Hanson Holdings Netherlands B v. and Hmac Investments Inc. v. Ml Scm Acquisition Inc., Ml L.B.O. Holdings Inc., Merrill Lynch Capitol Partners, Inc., Merrill Lynch Capitol Markets, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Scm Corporation, Paul H. Elicker, D. George Harris, Robert O. Bass, Robert P. Bauman, John T. Booth, George E. Hall, Crocker Nevin, Charles W. Parry, Thomas G. Pownall, E. Everett Smith, David W. Wallace, and Richard R. WestCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit 1985-03-14Alden SMITH and John W. Gosselin, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. Jerome W. VAN GORKOM, Bruce S. Chelberg, William B. Johnson, Joseph B. Lanterman, Graham J. Morgan, Thomas P. O’Boyle, W. Allen Wallis, Sidney H. Bonser, William D. Browder, Trans Union Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Marmon Group, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, GL Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, and New T. Co., a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1984-06-21Bernard POGOSTIN, Ann Brown and Irwin J. Newman, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. W. Thomas RICE, Eliot H. Stein, Fred Sullivan, A. Lightfoot Walker, Arthur C. Babson, Francis L. Cappaert, Edwin I. Hatch, Peter C. Huang, George T. Scharfenberger, Joe E. Lonning, Daniel E. Lyons, Stephen E. O’Neil, Eben W. Pyne, John H. Washburn and City Investing Company, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme 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 1979-08-06ROLAND INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Landro Corporation, and Hyatt Corporation, Defendants, Appellants, v. Thomas C. NAJJAR, Jr., Plaintiff, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1977-10-20Charles KAPLAN, Plaintiff, v. Robert S. GOLDSAMT, Bernard J. Korman, Alan B. Miller, Leonard W. Cronkhite, Jr., Thomas L. Kempner, Leonard M. Leiman, Louis Rones, J. Irving Schwartz, Joseph Ziegler and American Medicorp, Inc., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1975-07-29George S. PETTY, Plaintiff, v. PENNTECH PAPERS, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware

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1974-01-10Louis S. GIMBEL, III, Plaintiff, v. the SIGNAL COMPANIES, INC., Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware

5 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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