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Bennett v. Propp

1962-12-28 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

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first 1964 · last 1992 · busiest 1985 (3 judgments)

1992-04-09W.B. Dixon STROUD, Jr., Morris W. Stroud, Agnes S. Peele, and Anne S. Bradford, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. J. Peter GRACE, Dr. George C. Dacey, Dr. T.J. Malone, Roger Milliken, H.W. Jockers, Dr. H. Keith Brodie, Minot K. Milliken, F.G. Rogers, Rene C. McPherson, Gerrish H. Milliken, and Milliken & Company, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1988-07-25BLASIUS INDUSTRIES, INC., William B. Conner, Warren Delano, Jr., Harold H. George, Harold E. Hall, Michael A. Lubin, Arnold W. MacAlonan, Thomas J. Murnick, and William P. Shulevitz, Plaintiffs, v. ATLAS CORPORATION, John J. Dwyer, Edward R. Farley, Jr., Michael Bongiovanni, Richard R. Weaver, Walter G. Clinchy, Andrew Davlin, Jr., Edgar M. Masinter, John M. Devaney and Harry J. Winters, Jr., DefendantsCourt of Chancery 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 1986-03-10William J. POLK, Jr., Et Al., Objectors Below, Appellants, Miriam Gelband and Leo Kayser, III, Objectors Below, Appellants, Seagoing Uniform Corporation, Objector Below, Appellant, Mollie Pin, Objector Below, Appellant, Mandel, Lipton & Stevenson Profit Sharing Plan, Objector Below, Appellant, v. Howard GOOD, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellees, and Texaco, Inc., Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme 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 1985-06-10UNOCAL 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 1985-03-14Alden 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 1985-01-29John A. MORAN and the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, Plaintiffs, and Gretl Golter, Individually and in a Derivative Capacity, Plaintiff Intervenor, v. HOUSEHOLD INTERNATIONAL, INC. a Delaware Corporation, Donald C. Clark, Thomas D. Flynn, Mary Johnston Evans, William D. Hendry, Joseph W. James, Mitchell P. Kartalia, Gordon P. Osler, Arthur E. Rasmussen, George W. Rauch, James M. Tait, Miller Upton, Bernard F. Brennan and Gary G. Dillon, Defendants; HOUSEHOLD INTERNATIONAL, INC., Counterclaim Plaintiff, v. John A. MORAN, Charles H. Dyson and the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, Counterclaim DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1981-07-06Ruth PANTER Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MARSHALL FIELD & CO. Et Al., Defendants-Appellees; Richard WEISS Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MARSHALL FIELD & CO., Defendants-AppelleesSeventh Circuit 1980-11-17Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 97,603, Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 97,705 Treadway Companies, Inc. v. Care Corporation, Robert W. Browne, Daniel Cowin and Philip Dejourno, Care Corporation, Robert W. Browne and Philip Dejourno, Counterclaim v. Fair Lanes, Inc., Treadway Companies, Inc., Daniel Parke Lieblich, John R. McDonnell Simon Gluckman, Norman Brassler, Murray L. Cole, Samuel B. Dobrow and Bernard Mills, Counterclaim Care Corporation and Philip Dejourno, Suing Derivatively in the Right and for the Benefit of Treadway Companies, Inc., Counterclaim v. Fair Lanes, Inc., Daniel Parke Lieblich, John R. McDonnell Simon Gluckman, Norman Brassler, Murray L. Cole, Samuel B. Dobrow and Bernard Mills, Counterclaim and Treadway Companies, Inc., Nominal CounterclaimCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit 1980-08-19Johnson, Gilbert P. And Johnson, Hervey M. v. Samuel J. Trueblood, Arnold E. Trueblood, Harvey I. Salwen, and Penn Eastern Development Company Gilbert Johnson and Hervey Johnson, Individually and Derivatively on Behalf of Penn Eastern Development CorporationThird Circuit 1975-07-29George S. PETTY, Plaintiff, v. PENNTECH PAPERS, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1967-06-02CONDEC CORPORATION, a New York Corporation, Plaintiff, v. the LUNKENHEIMER COMPANY, U. S. Industries, Inc. and U. S. Industrial Corporation, Delaware Corporations, DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1964-03-17Cheff v. MathesSupreme Court of Delaware

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1960-02-18Kors v. CareyCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1952-10-30Lester Martin, Sylvia Martin, Samuel Martin and Lester Martin & Co., Inc., a Corporation of the State of New York, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, vs. American Potash & Chemical Corporation, a Corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1950-02-09Johan M. Andersen & Others vs. Albert & J. M. Anderson Manufacturing Company & OthersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

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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.