Shields v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Burcham v. Unison Bancorp, Inc. (2003), Katz v. Oak Industries Inc. (2008)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 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 Unocal Corp. v. Mesa Petroleum Co. · 24 Del. Ch. 318 - Federal United Corp. v. Havender · Gimbel v. Signal Companies, Inc. · Gimbel v. Signal Companies, Inc. · 41 Del. Ch. 361 - Orzeck v. Englehart
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]t the moment a stock for stock merger is effective, the stock in a constituent corporation (other than the surviving corporation) ceases to exist legally.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“would have a right to buy that which has ceased to exist by virtue of the act (i.e., the merger) giving rise to the right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sell, give, pledge, dispose of by will, gift in trust or in any manner otherwise dispose of his or her stock.”
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.