Equity Corp. v. Milton’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1987
1 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 80A
Relies on Guth v. Loft, Inc. · 31 Del. Ch. 241 - Brophy v. Cities Service Co. · 35 Del. Ch. 479 - Johnston v. Greene · Kors v. Carey · Colorado & Utah Coal Co. v. Harris
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“, as held by the Delaware Court in Kors v. Carey, 39 Del.Ch. 47, 158 A.2d 136, 141 (1960), or, as alternatively put by the Delaware Court in Equity Corp. v. Milton, 42 Del.Ch. 425, 213 A.2d 439, 442 (1965), aff'd, 43 Del.Ch. 160, 221 A.2d 494 (1966): 54 The question of whether or not a corporate fiduciary has appropriated for himself something that in fairness should belong to his corporation is”
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.