Tracey v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2025
12 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 John W. Cooney Co. v. Arlington Hotel Co. · 22 Del. Ch. 33 - Perry v. Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. · 17 Del. Ch. 113 - Standard Oilshares, Inc. v. Standard Oil Group, Inc. · 21 Del. Ch. 431 - American Hair & Felt Co. v. Starring · H. M. Byllesby & Co. v. Doriot
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.
““Thus, this court although only passing on a demurrer, indicated that absent special circumstances, a restraint limiting the sale only to the corporation was unreasonable. * * * “* * * Nothing in the voting trust agreement or the allegations of the complaint justifies the suspension of the power of alienation for such a period of time. * * * "* * * I think it clear as heretofore stated that under the law of this State any restraint is invalid. unless accompanied by circumstances which would justify a reasonable restraint. * * * “I conclude from the pleadings that the voting trust agreement must be held invalid in its entirety because its illegal restraint provisions are not legally severable.””
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.