merger
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 306 U.S. 522 - Helvering v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · 1939Most cited · 140 citing opinions
a transfer without valuable consideration, with the intent that the transferor shall, as the statute provides, cease to exist, made in accordance with the statute, has all the elements of a merger and comes within the principle that the corporate personality of the transferor is drowned in that of the transferee
How often courts cite the cases defining “merger”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “merger” — 222 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1872–1939
- ORIGINAL
those corporate rights and franchises of the old company, which appertain to its existence and functions as a corporation...became merged and extinct. But all its rights and duties, its privileges and obligations, as related to the public, or to third persons, remain, and devolve upon the new company.
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