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Andrew H. SCHNELL, Jr. and Jack Safer, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. CHRIS-CRAFT INDUSTRIES, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Defendant Below, Appellee

1971-11-29 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

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1995-01-11UNITRIN, INC., James E. Annable, Reuben L. Hedlund, Jerrold v. Jerome, George A. Roberts, Fayez S. Sarofim, Henry E. Singleton and Richard C. Vie, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. AMERICAN GENERAL CORP., Plaintiff Below, Appellee. in Re UNITRIN, INC. Shareholders LitigationSupreme Court of Delaware 1994-02-04PARAMOUNT COMMUNICATIONS INC., Viacom Inc., Martin S. Davis, Grace J. Fippinger, Irving R. Fischer, Benjamin L. Hooks, Franz J. Lutolf, James A. Pattison, Irwin Schloss, Samuel J. Silber-Man, Lawrence M. Small, and George Weissman, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. QVC NETWORK INC., Plaintiff Below, Appellee. in Re PARAMOUNT COMMUNICATIONS INC. SHAREHOLDERS’ LITIGATIONSupreme Court of Delaware 1993-12-08In Re TRI-STAR PICTURES, INC., LITIGATIONSupreme Court of Delaware 1992-04-09W.B. Dixon STROUD, Jr., Morris W. Stroud, Agnes S. Peele, and Anne S. Bradford, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. J. Peter GRACE, Dr. George C. Dacey, Dr. T.J. Malone, Roger Milliken, H.W. Jockers, Dr. H. Keith Brodie, Minot K. Milliken, F.G. Rogers, Rene C. McPherson, Gerrish H. Milliken, and Milliken & Company, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1988-07-25BLASIUS INDUSTRIES, INC., William B. Conner, Warren Delano, Jr., Harold H. George, Harold E. Hall, Michael A. Lubin, Arnold W. MacAlonan, Thomas J. Murnick, and William P. Shulevitz, Plaintiffs, v. ATLAS CORPORATION, John J. Dwyer, Edward R. Farley, Jr., Michael Bongiovanni, Richard R. Weaver, Walter G. Clinchy, Andrew Davlin, Jr., Edgar M. Masinter, John M. Devaney and Harry J. Winters, Jr., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1985-09-23Frieda H. RABKIN, Harry Lewis, Eric Emory, Alan Emory, Nancy Emory, Howard Greenwald, Werner Klugman and Samuel Kaufman, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. PHILIP A. HUNT CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Olin Corporation, Alfred T. Blomquist, Robert T. Zetena, John M. Henske, John R. Bonniwell, Charles J. Lause, Stephen R. Petschek and George J. Haufler, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-06-10UNOCAL CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. MESA PETROLEUM CO., a Delaware Corporation, Mesa Asset Co., a Delaware Corporation, Mesa Eastern, Inc., a Delaware Corporation and Mesa Partners II, a Texas Partnership, Plaintiffs Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-03-14Alden SMITH and John W. Gosselin, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. Jerome W. VAN GORKOM, Bruce S. Chelberg, William B. Johnson, Joseph B. Lanterman, Graham J. Morgan, Thomas P. O’Boyle, W. Allen Wallis, Sidney H. Bonser, William D. Browder, Trans Union Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Marmon Group, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, GL Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, and New T. Co., a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-01-29John A. MORAN and the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, Plaintiffs, and Gretl Golter, Individually and in a Derivative Capacity, Plaintiff Intervenor, v. HOUSEHOLD INTERNATIONAL, INC. a Delaware Corporation, Donald C. Clark, Thomas D. Flynn, Mary Johnston Evans, William D. Hendry, Joseph W. James, Mitchell P. Kartalia, Gordon P. Osler, Arthur E. Rasmussen, George W. Rauch, James M. Tait, Miller Upton, Bernard F. Brennan and Gary G. Dillon, Defendants; HOUSEHOLD INTERNATIONAL, INC., Counterclaim Plaintiff, v. John A. MORAN, Charles H. Dyson and the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, Counterclaim DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1984-06-21Bernard POGOSTIN, Ann Brown and Irwin J. Newman, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. W. Thomas RICE, Eliot H. Stein, Fred Sullivan, A. Lightfoot Walker, Arthur C. Babson, Francis L. Cappaert, Edwin I. Hatch, Peter C. Huang, George T. Scharfenberger, Joe E. Lonning, Daniel E. Lyons, Stephen E. O’Neil, Eben W. Pyne, John H. Washburn and City Investing Company, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1982-07-30Nicholas L. GIURICICH and Bodo Kalen, Individually, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. EMTROL CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Robert G. Fournie, Earle J. Kennedy, Jr., Kenneth B. Hardy, Jr., Robert G. Fournie, Jr., and Earle J. Kennedy, III, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1980-09-23Henry LERMAN, Plaintiff, v. DIAGNOSTIC DATA, INC., a Delaware Corporation, DefendantCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1977-09-23Louis S. SINGER and Mollie Singer, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. the MAGNAVOX COMPANY Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1976-01-22Libby G. LYNCH, Plaintiff, v. VICKERS ENERGY CORPORATION Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1975-07-29George S. PETTY, Plaintiff, v. PENNTECH PAPERS, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware

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1967-06-02CONDEC CORPORATION, a New York Corporation, Plaintiff, v. the LUNKENHEIMER COMPANY, U. S. Industries, Inc. and U. S. Industrial Corporation, Delaware Corporations, DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1957-12-10The American Hardware Corporation, a Connecticut Corporation, and B. S. F. Company, a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, vs. Savage Arms Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1957-11-07American Hardware Corp. v. Savage Arms Corp.Court of Chancery of Delaware

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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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