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just and reasonable

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 334 U.S. 182 - Schwabacher v. United States · 1948Most cited · 306 citing opinions

In appraising a stockholder's position in a merger as to justice and reasonableness, it is not the promise that a charter made to him but the current worth of that promise that governs, it is not what he once put into a constituent company but what value he is contributing to the merger that is to be made good.

How often courts cite the case defining “just and reasonable”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “just and reasonable” — 306 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.