Hoffman v. Dann

1964-11-17 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

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19661 judgments13 years silent19791 judgments7 years silent19861 judgments9 years silent19951 judgments

4 judgments have relied on it, across 1966–1995

first 1966 · last 1995 · busiest 1966 (1 judgments)

1995-11-22In Re SANTA FE PACIFIC CORPORATION SHAREHOLDER LITIGATIONSupreme Court of Delaware 1986-10-30Sylvia Martin MANN and R. Allen Martin, Trustees Under Deed of Trust Dated June 26, 1972, for the Benefit of Alana Martin Frumkes, and R. Allan Martin, Individually, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. OPPENHEIMER & CO., a Delaware Corporation, Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1979-10-02A. Elihu MICHELSON, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. Louis C. DUNCAN, G. R. Ellis, Thomas D. Flynn, Joseph W. James, Mitchell P. Kartalia, Paul C. Nagel, Jr., Gordon P. Osler, Arthur E. Rasmussen, George W. Rauch, A. O. Steffey, James W. Tait, Robert C. Trow, Miller Upton, William E. Wehner, John C. Whitehead, D. C. Clark, John T. Gurash and Household Finance Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1966-10-17Chrysler Corporation, Defendant Below, Appellant, Cross-Appellee, vs. Sol A. Dann Et Al., and Mary L. Gallo Et Al., Plaintiffs and Petitioners Below, Appellees, Cross-AppellantsSupreme Court of Delaware

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1964-01-14Rome v. ArcherSupreme Court of Delaware 1960-02-11Beard v. ElsterSupreme Court of Delaware 1959-10-28Lieberman v. BeckerSupreme Court of Delaware 1952-11-18Robert D. Sterling, Ruth L. Sterling, Edward Sterling, Oliver Sterling, Elizabeth Parks Sterling, Realty Investing Company, Cathedral Estates, Inc., Charles Kimmelman, Milton A. Kimmelman, Allenhurst Realties, Inc., Rhinelander Improvement Co., Inc., Helen Kimmelman, Ida Kimmelman, Alma S. Porter and Ruth S. Frost, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, vs. Mayflower Hotel Corporation and Hilton Hotels Corporation, Each a Corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court 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 1952-07-17Edward A. Kerbs and George J. Haney, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, vs. California Eastern Airways, Inc., a Delaware Corporation. Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1952-07-17Tessie Gottlieb, Plaintiff—below, Appellant, vs. Heyden Chemical Corporation, a Corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendant—below, AppelleeSupreme 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.

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.