31 Del. Ch. 477 - Tracey v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Carl v. Children's Hospital (1997), Estate of Reynolds v. Commissioner (1970)
6 district · 28 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 New England Trust Co. v. Abbott · 2 E.H. Smith 519 - Williams v. . Montgomery · Baumohl v. Goldstein · 22 Del. Ch. 33 - Perry v. Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. · 17 Del. Ch. 113 - Standard Oilshares, Inc. v. Standard Oil Group, Inc.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The agreement is a private contract between two shareholders only. From all that is before us, we find no specification of any particular purpose, so far as the restraints in question are concerned, to benefit the corporation, or other stockholders of the same class, or to do otherwise than to solidify ownership in the parties themselves. The facts do not disclose legally sufficient purposes to justify the restraints on alienation. Therefore, we hold the restraints invalid. [ Id. 67 A. 2d at 60 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . unless restraints are imposed for purposes recognized as sufficient, they will be held invalid.”
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.