Marks v. Wolfson’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2014
1 district · 8 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 Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. v. Steel & Tube Co. of America · Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. v. Steel & Tube Co. of America · Allaun v. Consolidated Oil Co. · Graham v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company · Robinson v. Pittsburgh Oil Ref.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... inadequacy ... so gross as to display itself as a badge of fraud”); Marks v. Wolfson, Del. Ch., 188 A.2d 680, 685 (1963) ("... price ... for the sale of ... assets was so clearly inadequate as constructively to carry the badge of fraud”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In actual point of fact the evidence sustains a finding, in my opinion, that the bargaining which resulted in the sale here in issue took place between a willing buyer who was not required to buy and a willing seller under no real compulsion to sell and that such bargaining was genuine and motivated by self-interest on the part of those on opposite sides of the bargaining table.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.