Ward M. Canaday, Petitioner, v. the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in and for New Castle County and the Honorable Charles L. Terry, Sitting as Judge of Said Court, Respondents; Katharine R. Brainard, Executrix Under the Last Will and Testament of Millar Brainard, Deceased, and Samuel Vance, Jr., Intervening Respondents

1955-11-30 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

read the judgment

0What it rests on

3Relied on since

0Departed from

Relied on since

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

19671 judgments18 years silent19851 judgments19861 judgments

3 judgments have relied on it, across 1967–1986

first 1967 · last 1986 · busiest 1967 (1 judgments)

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

What it rests on

12 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.