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21 Del. Ch. 361 - Loft, Inc. v. Guth’s Empirical Analysis

1937

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
January 1961
most recently cited

13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1961

13 state decisions

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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 Wise v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Terry v. Stull · Mackenzie Oil Co. v. Omar Oil & Gas Co. · Polackoff v. Sunkin · Sunset Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City of Eureka

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““* * * the right to discovery is founded in the justice of compelling one party to furnish to the other information in his possession which the other needs in sustaining his own case * *”
    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.