35 Del. Ch. 83 - Steiner v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably City Capital Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Interco Inc. (1988), Evans v. Buchanan (1974)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 15 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Sweatt v. Painter · State of Missouri Gaines v. Canada · Rogers v. Hill · Sipuel v. Board of Regents
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is a well settled principle of equity that a preliminary mandatory injunction will not issue unless the legal right to be protected is clearly established.”); Tebo v. Hazel, 38 Del.Ch. 116, 127 , 74 A. 841 (1909) (collecting cases that stand for the proposition that”
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.