Chrysler Corp. v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2017
14 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 24 Del. Ch. 318 - Federal United Corp. v. Havender · 21 Del. Ch. 391 - Keller v. Wilson Co. Inc. · Monacelli v. Grimes · Carper v. New Castle County Board of Education · Stiftel v. Malarkey
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a time honored principle that [the Delaware Supreme Court] 'will not infer an intention to make an act retrospective,’ and that ‘to give an act a retrospective operation would be contrary to well settled principles of law applicable to the construction of statutes unless it be plainly and unmistakably so provided by the statute.’ ”) . See Shaffer v. Heitner, 433 U.S. 186, 216 , 97 S.Ct. 2569 , 53 L.Ed.2d 683 (1977) (acceptance of a position as a corporate director or officer”
2 later decisions 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.