Adams v. RC Williams & Company

1960-01-25 · Court of Chancery of Delaware · United States

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Relied on since

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4 judgments have relied on it, across 1960–1985

first 1960 · last 1985 · busiest 1960 (1 judgments)

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 1968-09-27In Re OLIVETTI UNDERWOOD CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, an Appraisal ProceedingCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1965-08-02Application of Delaware Racing AssociationSupreme Court of Delaware 1960-03-24Felder v. Anderson, Clayton & Co.Court of Chancery of Delaware

What it rests on

1956-12-21Helen E. Cottrell, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, vs. the Pawcatuck Company (Formerly the C. B. Cottrell & Sons Company), a Delaware Corporation (Known as the Old Company), Harris-Seybold Company, a Delaware Corporation, Donald C. Cottrell, Ridley Watts, Arthur M. Cottrell, Jr., Charles P. Cottrell, Jr., and the Cottrell Company, a Delaware Corporation (Known as the New Company), Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1956-06-08Sporborg v. City Specialty StoresCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1953-07-23Heller v. Munsingwear, Inc.Court of Chancery of Delaware

2 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.