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Robert 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, Appellees

1952-11-18 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

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28 judgments have relied on it, across 1956–2026

first 1956 · last 2026 · busiest 1971 (3 judgments)

2026-07-23Samvit Ramadurgam v. Destiny XYZ Inc.Court of Chancery of Delaware 1994-04-05Alan R. KAHN, as Custodian for Amanda Kahn and Kimberly Kahn, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. LYNCH COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC., Compagnie Generale D’Electricite, Alcatel, S.A., Alcatel USA Corp., Frank M. Drendel, Raymond Hono, Francois H. De Laage De Meux, John Gailey and Gilles DuPay-d’Ageac, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1989-05-03MILLS ACQUISITION CO., a Delaware Corporation, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. MACMILLAN, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1988-04-04SUMMA 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, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1986-09-18AC ACQUISITIONS CORP., Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., Gruss Petroleum Corp., and Gruss Partners, Plaintiffs, v. ANDERSON, CLAYTON & CO., F.F. Avery, G. William Miller, Richard J v. Johnson, S.M. McAshan, Jr., T.J. Barlow, W. Fenton Guinee, Jr., John L. Fichter, Benjamin M. Baker, Jr., Charles L. Blackburn, John T. Cater, Ralph L. Cobb, Jennings F. Futch, John B. Powell, Jr., D.M. Buchanan, R.F. Harris, and W.W. Vann, DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1985-09-23Frieda H. RABKIN, Harry Lewis, Eric Emory, Alan Emory, Nancy Emory, Howard Greenwald, Werner Klugman and Samuel Kaufman, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. PHILIP A. HUNT CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Olin Corporation, Alfred T. Blomquist, Robert T. Zetena, John M. Henske, John R. Bonniwell, Charles J. Lause, Stephen R. Petschek and George J. Haufler, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-06-10UNOCAL CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. MESA PETROLEUM CO., a Delaware Corporation, Mesa Asset Co., a Delaware Corporation, Mesa Eastern, Inc., a Delaware Corporation and Mesa Partners II, a Texas Partnership, Plaintiffs Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 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 1981-05-13ZAPATA CORPORATION, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. William MALDONADO, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1981-02-09William B. WEINBERGER, Plaintiff, v. UOP, INC. Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery 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 1979-08-06ROLAND INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Landro Corporation, and Hyatt Corporation, Defendants, Appellants, v. Thomas C. NAJJAR, Jr., Plaintiff, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1977-10-18Michael D. TANZER and Deborah Tanzer, as Trustees of Tanzer Economic Associates, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. INTERNATIONAL GENERAL INDUSTRIES, INC., Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1977-09-23Louis S. SINGER and Mollie Singer, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. the MAGNAVOX COMPANY Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme 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 1976-06-28Irving FLIEGLER, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. John C. LAWRENCE Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1971-10-20John PUMA, Plaintiff, v. J. Willard MARRIOTT 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 1971-06-15DAVID J. GREENE & CO. Et Al., Plaintiffs, v. SCHENLEY INDUSTRIES, INC., Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1970-06-01GETTY OIL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. SKELLY OIL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant Below, Appellee; SKELLY OIL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant Below, Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. GETTY OIL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff Below, Appellant and Cross-AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1969-12-23Francis S. LEVIEN, Plaintiff, v. SINCLAIR OIL CORPORATION and Sinclair Venezuelan Oil Company, DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1969-07-31Harry BASTIAN, Jarlath W. Brady and Edwin Mulcahy, in Their Own Right and as Representatives of All Other Stockholders of Chicago Aerial Industries, Inc. Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. BOURNS, INC., a Corporation of the State of California and Bourns C. A. I., Inc., a Corporation of the State of Delaware and Chicago Aerial Industries, Inc., a Corporation of the State of Delaware, DefendantsCourt of Chancery 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 1968-02-14William S. EPSTEIN, Plaintiff, v. the CELOTEX CORPORATION, the South Coast Corporation, South Shore Oil & Development Company and Jim Walter Corporation, DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1964-11-17Hoffman v. DannSupreme Court of Delaware 1956-06-08Sporborg v. City Specialty StoresCourt of Chancery of Delaware

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1952-07-17Tessie Gottlieb, Plaintiff—below, Appellant, vs. Heyden Chemical Corporation, a Corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendant—below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1952-06-17Sterling v. Mayflower Hotel Corp.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

10 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.