Daniel J. BURGE and Clifford Henry, Intervenors Below, Appellants, v. FIDELITY BOND AND MORTGAGE COMPANY, a Corporation Organized and Existing Under the Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Plaintiff Below, Appellee, Cross Appellant, v. Benjamin DUNCAN and Donna Duncan, Defendants Below, Appellees

1994-09-27 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

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2 judgments have relied on it, across 1998–2006

first 1998 · last 2006 · busiest 1998 (1 judgments)

2006-07-10DOVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC., Henry R. Horsey, Holly Johnson and Charles Johnson, Petitioners-Below, Appellants, v. CITY OF DOVER PLANNING COMMISSION, Young & Malmberg, P.A., a Delaware Professional Association, and Yozima, L.L.C., a Delaware Limited Liability Company, Respondents-Below, Appellees; The Friends of Old Dover, Inc., Henry R. Horsey, Holly Johnson and Charles Johnson, Petitioners-Below, Appellants, v. City of Dover Planning Commission, Young & Malmberg, P.A., a Delaware Professional Association, and Yozima, L.L.C., a Delaware Limited Liability Company, Respondents-Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1998-01-22Charles BRICE, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware

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1989-07-03TANDYCRAFTS, INC., R.E. Cox, III, Roger A. Dickinson, Kenneth L. Gregson, William H. Michero, Joe K. Pace, Robert Schutts, and John A. Wilson, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. INITIO PARTNERS, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware

18 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.