Weinberger v. UOP, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 18 district · 291 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 425 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Cede & Co. v. Technicolor, Inc. (1994), In Re Caremark International Inc. Derivative Litigation (1996)
40 federal appellate · 18 district · 291 state decisions — followed in 31 states
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 Guth v. Loft, Inc. · 33 Del. Ch. 293 - Sterling v. Mayflower Hotel Corp. · Levitt v. Bouvier · Singer v. Magnavox Co. · 31 Del. Ch. 523 - Tri-Continental Corporation v. Battye
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 425 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The concept of fairness has two basic aspects: fair dealing and fair price. The former embraces questions of when the transaction was timed, how it was initiated, structured, negotiated, disclosed to the directors, and how the approvals of the directors and the stockholders were obtained. The latter aspect of fairness relates to the economic and financial considerations of the proposed merger, including all relevant factors: assets, market value, earnings, future prospects, and any other elements that affect the intrinsic or inherent value of a company’s stock.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“any case challenging a cash-out merger, the effective date of which is on or before February 1, 1983.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“asset value, dividends, earning prospects, the nature of the enterprise and any other facts ... which throw any light on future prospects.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.