Jane STEPHENSON, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. CAPANO DEVELOPMENT, INC., Defendant Below, Appellee

1983-05-24 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

1What it rests on

6Relied on since

0Departed from

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The judgments that cite this one. This is the answer that tells you the case is still alive.

19861 judgments19871 judgments19891 judgments19921 judgments4 years silent19961 judgments30 years silent20261 judgments

6 judgments have relied on it, across 1986–2026

first 1986 · last 2026 · busiest 1986 (1 judgments)

2026-07-17Bobby Sarnevesht v. Triller Group Inc.Court of Chancery of Delaware 1996-08-23Marilyn ZIRN, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. VLI CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Robert A. Elliott, Charlotte O’Hara Vorhauer, Personal Representative of the Estate of Bruce Vorhauer, Lawrance A. Brown, Jr., Barbara Best North, and American Home Products, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1992-08-26Benjamin GAFFIN, on Behalf of Himself and All Other Persons Similarly Situated, Appellant, v. TELEDYNE, INC., a Corporate Entity, AppelleeSupreme 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 1987-04-30NICOLET, INC., Defendant Below, Appellant, v. Earl R. NUTT, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1986-10-30Sylvia Martin MANN and R. Allen Martin, Trustees Under Deed of Trust Dated June 26, 1972, for the Benefit of Alana Martin Frumkes, and R. Allan Martin, Individually, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. OPPENHEIMER & CO., a Delaware Corporation, Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware

What it rests on

1967-06-21Grace L. WALSH and Robert Walsh, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. HOTEL CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware

24 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.

not characterised

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.