Blish v. Thompson Automatic Arms Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining “promoter” as including “those who undertake to form a corporation and to procure for it the rights, instrumentalities and capital by which it is to carry out the purposes set forth in its charter, and to establish it as fully able to do its business”
• a plaintiff who alleges domination of a board of directors and/or control of its affairs must prove it
• “The term ‘absolute judgment,’ as indicated, means a judgment based upon sincerity, honesty, fair dealing and good faith, not one evidencing caprice or bad faith.”
• good faith “by express terms or by implication is written into every contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

78 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Merrill v. Crothall-American, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-04-21· cited 407×
• Dunlap v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-07-13· cited 338×
• E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co. v. Pressman
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-07-10· cited 208×
• Sterling v. Mayflower Hotel Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1952-11-18· cited 196×
• Resource Management Co. v. Weston Ranch
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-08-23· cited 131×
• Kerbs v. California Eastern Airways, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1952-07-17· cited 110×
• In re MFW Shareholders Litigation
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2013-05-29· cited 103×
• Beard v. Elster
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1960-02-11· cited 85×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,916 Howard Polin, Etc. v. Conductron Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 1977-04-14· cited 83×
• Cheff v. Mathes
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1964-03-17· cited 83×
• Kaplan v. Centex Corporation
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1971-10-22· cited 66×
• HORNSBY v. LOHMEYER
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-03-20· cited 57×
• Bennett v. Propp
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1962-12-28· cited 56×
• Gries Sports Enterprises, Inc. v. Cleveland Browns Football Co.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1986-08-20· cited 55×
• Patrick v. Alacer Corp.
  California Court of Appeal· 2008-10-22· cited 53×
• Abbey v. Control Data Corp.
  Eighth Circuit· 1979-08-06· cited 49×
• Odyssey Partners, L.P. v. Fleming Companies, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1999-05-13· cited 48×
• Application of Delaware Racing Association
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1965-08-02· cited 48×
• Dillon v. Berg
  D. Delaware· 1971-05-06· cited 47×
• Weiss v. Kay Jewelry Stores, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-11-03· cited 45×

Cites

47 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. Bigelow
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1909-09-14· cited 235×
• Colton v. Colton
  Supreme Court· 1888-04-30· cited 232×
• North American Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission
  Supreme Court· 1946-04-01· cited 209×
• McQuillen v. National Cash Register Co.
  Fourth Circuit· 1940-06-10· cited 88×
• Jones v. Morrison
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1883-09-29· cited 77×
• Rosenthal Paper Co. v. National Folding Box & Paper Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1919-05-20· cited 74×
• New York Trust Co. v. Riley
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1940-10-29· cited 47×
• Bishop v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1926-11-29· cited 43×
• Raner v. Goldberg
  New York Court of Appeals· 1927-02-23· cited 43×
• Rogers v. Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 1898-11-09· cited 35×
• Texas Co. v. Pensacola Maritime Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1922-03-10· cited 33×
• Boyum v. Johnson
  Eighth Circuit· 1942-04-13· cited 29×
• Baltimore & O. Tel. Co. v. Interstate Tel. Co.
  Fourth Circuit· 1893-02-07· cited 28×
• Seitz v. Union Brass & Metal Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1922-06-30· cited 27×
• Bovay v. H. M. Byllesby & Co.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1940-03-25· cited 25×
• Wyles v. Campbell
  D. Delaware· 1948-03-31· cited 23×
• Jay Dreher Corporation v. Delco Appliance Corp.
  Second Circuit· 1937-12-06· cited 21×
• Godley v. Crandall & Godley Co.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1917-12-31· cited 20×
• Corey v. Independent Ice Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1917-03-13· cited 19×
• Interstate Tel. Co. v. Baltimore & O. Tel. Co.
  D. Maryland· 1892-06-08· cited 19×