Alcott v. Hyman’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1995
1 federal appellate · 1 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 33 Del. Ch. 82 - Gottlieb v. Heyden Chemical Corp. · 33 Del. Ch. 177 - Gottlieb v. Heyden Chemical Corp. · Beard v. Elster · Saxe v. Brady · Frank C. Sparks Co. v. Huber Baking Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by the corporation of its own stock because the corporation had received cash and an assumption of liabilities as well as receiving its own stock. The Delaware Court held otherwise: 14”
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.