Benjamin GAFFIN, on Behalf of Himself and All Other Persons Similarly Situated, Appellant, v. TELEDYNE, INC., a Corporate Entity, Appellee

1992-08-26 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

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first 1993 · last 2002 · busiest 1993 (2 judgments)

2002-10-11GOTHAM PARTNERS, L.P., Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. HALLWOOD REALTY PARTNERS, L.P., Hallwood Realty Corporation, the Hallwood Group Incorporated, Anthony J. Gumbiner and William L. Guzzetti, Defendants Below, Appellees/Cross-AppellantsSupreme Court of Delaware 1997-09-18Donald H. LOUDON, Jr., Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND COMPANY, Dwayne O. Andreas, Michael D. Andreas, Lowell W. Andreas, Martin L. Andreas, Ralph Bruce, John H. Daniels, H.D. Hale, John K. Vanier, M. Brian Mulroney, Marguaritta Rockefeller, James R. Randall, O. Glenn Webb, F. Ross Johnson, Shreve M. Archer, Jr., Ray A. Goldberg, Robert S. Strauss, and Gaylord O. Coan, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1996-08-23Marilyn 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, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1996-06-25Steven E. ARNOLD, Executor of the Estate of Robert H. Arnold, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. SOCIETY FOR SAYINGS BANCORP, INC., a Delaware Corporation, David T. Chase, Sanford Cloud, Jr., Lawrence Connell, Robert E. Green, Jerome H. Grossman, Betsy Henley-Cohn, Ronald D. Jarvis, Edward W. Large, Edward J. Okay, John F. Shea, Jr., Florian A. Stang, Jerry F. Stone, Jr., Bank of Boston Corporation, and BBC Connecticut Holding Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 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

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1992-04-23SHELL PETROLEUM, INC., F/K/A SPNV Holdings, Inc., Defendant Below, Appellant, v. Raymond A. SMITH, Edwina A. Tarry, George William Tarry, as Trustee, Joseph R. Reilly, John Bancroft Webster, and Edward F. Pohrer, Plaintiffs Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1983-05-24Jane STEPHENSON, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. CAPANO DEVELOPMENT, INC., Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1981-04-03Libby G. LYNCH, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. VICKERS ENERGY CORPORATION, Esmark, Inc., William A. Alexander, Richard J. Boushka, Edward J. Hudson, Donald P. Kelly, Robert D. Phillips, Stormy F. Smith and Jack A. Vickers, Defendants, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware

6 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.

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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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