Peter GILBERT and William Steiner, Plaintiffs, v. the EL PASO COMPANY and Burlington Northern, Inc., Et Al., Defendants; Herbert BREITMAN, as Sole Trustee of Ed Rosenthal Neckwear, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan, and All Other Parties Similarly Situated and Circumstanced, Plaintiff, v. BURLINGTON NORTHERN, INC., Et Al., Defendants

1984-11-27 · Court of Chancery of Delaware · United States

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first 1986 · last 2015 · busiest 1986 (2 judgments)

2015-11-30RBC CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC, Defendant Below, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Joanna JERVIS, Plaintiff Below, Appellee/Cross-AppellantSupreme Court of Delaware 1989-12-22Edith CITRON, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. FAIRCHILD CAMERA AND INSTRUMENT CORPORATION, Wilfred J. Corrigan, William C. Franklin, William A. Stenson, Walter Burke, Alvin C. Rice, C. Lester Hogan, Albert Bowers, Walter J.P. Curley, Schlumberger (California) Inc., Schlumberger Technology Corporation and Schlumberger Limited, Defendants Below, AppellantsSupreme Court of Delaware 1986-10-22William B. WEINBERGER, Plaintiff, v. RIO GRANDE INDUSTRIES, INC., Harry Blundell, W.K. Coors, W.J. Holtman, Gerald H. Phipps, G.B. Aydelott, John Evans, Jr., Roy W. Simmons, William Thayer Tutt, David P. Gardner, Charles H. Leavell, D.E. Provost, Mayfield R. Shilling, the Anschutz Corp. and TAC Acquisition Corp., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1986-03-13REVLON, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Michel C. Bergerac, Simon Aldewereld, Sander P. Alexander, Jay I. Bennett, Irving J. Bottner, Jacob Burns, Lewis L. Glucksman, John Loudon, Aileen Mehle, Samuel L. Simmons, Ian R. Wilson, Paul P. Woolard, Ezra K. Zilkha, Forstmann Little & Co., a New York Limited Partnership, and Forstmann Little & Co. Subordinated Debt and Equity Management Buyout Partnership-II, a New York Limited Partnership, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. MacANDREWS & FORBES HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware

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1983-02-01William B. WEINBERGER, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. UOP, INC., Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1981-02-09William B. WEINBERGER, Plaintiff, v. UOP, INC. Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1976-11-23LAVENTHOL, KREKSTEIN, HORWATH & HORWATH and Horwath & Horwath, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. Mervyn TUCKMAN, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1972-11-29PENN MART REALTY COMPANY, a Corporation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Plaintiff, v. Isadora A. BECKER Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1971-10-22Abraham KAPLAN, Administrator, C. T. A. of the Estate of Nat Gluck, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. CENTEX CORPORATION Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware

10 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

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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.