NICOLET, INC., Defendant Below, Appellant, v. Earl R. NUTT, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellees

1987-04-30 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

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19891 judgments4 years silent19932 judgments

3 judgments have relied on it, across 1989–1993

first 1989 · last 1993 · busiest 1993 (2 judgments)

1993-12-08In Re TRI-STAR PICTURES, INC., LITIGATIONSupreme Court of Delaware 1993-03-08Marilyn 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 Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme 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

What it rests on

1983-05-24Jane STEPHENSON, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. CAPANO DEVELOPMENT, INC., Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1976-11-23LAVENTHOL, KREKSTEIN, HORWATH & HORWATH and Horwath & Horwath, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. Mervyn TUCKMAN, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware

1 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.