Schiff v. RKO Pictures Corp.

1954-03-26 · Court of Chancery of Delaware · United States

2What it rests on

5Relied 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.

19551 judgments7 years silent19621 judgments9 years silent19711 judgments5 years silent19761 judgments19771 judgments

5 judgments have relied on it, across 1955–1977

first 1955 · last 1977 · busiest 1955 (1 judgments)

1977-10-20Charles KAPLAN, Plaintiff, v. Robert S. GOLDSAMT, Bernard J. Korman, Alan B. Miller, Leonard W. Cronkhite, Jr., Thomas L. Kempner, Leonard M. Leiman, Louis Rones, J. Irving Schwartz, Joseph Ziegler and American Medicorp, Inc., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1976-06-28Irving FLIEGLER, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. John C. LAWRENCE Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1971-10-20John PUMA, Plaintiff, v. J. Willard MARRIOTT Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1962-09-10Saxe v. BradyCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1955-09-28Cottrell v. Pawcatuck CompanyCourt of Chancery of Delaware

What it rests on

1952-10-21Kaufman v. ShoenbergCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1952-08-29Tessie Gottlieb, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, vs. Heyden Chemical Corporation, a Corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware

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.