37 Del. Ch. 298 - Mayer v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 1984 · most notably Aronson v. Lewis (1984), Zapata Corp. v. Maldonado (1981)
8 federal appellate · 3 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 Smith v. Sperling · Hawes v. Oakland · Rogers v. Guaranty Trust Co. · United Copper Securities Company v. Amalgamated Copper Company · 23 Del. Ch. 234 - Keenan v. Eshleman
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prayers for relief are also in very general terms, some asking equitable relief and some legal relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayer v. Adams“In the view we take of the case, the issue between the litigants narrows itself to this:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayer v. Adams
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.