Steinberg v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2017
1 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on EM Fleischmann Lumber Corp. v. Resources Corp. Int. · E. M. Fleischmann Lumber Corp. v. Resources Corp. International · PANAMANIAN SECURITIES v. Punta Alegre Sugar Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The specific relief prayed for in the complaint is the cancellation of or imposition of a constructive trust on the shares allegedly given Shields_ It is therefore pertinent to note that had the moving defendant [directors] defaulted, under the prayers of the present complaint the court could not have entered a money judgment against them. Thus, it could not have sold the seized shares.... I conclude that the allegations of the present complaint are not sufficient to support the seizure of the moving defendants’ stocks under 10 Del.C. § 366.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.