Hariton v. Arco Electronics, Inc.

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• Asset sale followed by dissolution not a de facto merger, even though it had the same effect as a merger, because the two steps are legally independent.
• “ ‘the general theory of the Delaware Corporation Law [is] that action taken pursuant to the authority of the various sections of that law constitute acts of independent legal significance and their validity is not dependent on other sections of the Act’ ”

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Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Turner v. Bituminous Casualty Co.
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1976-08-26· cited 264×
• Nixon v. Blackwell
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-06-22· cited 114×
• Orzeck v. Englehart
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1963-11-05· cited 48×
• Kidwell v. Meikle
  Ninth Circuit· 1979-06-01· cited 41×
• Rath v. Rath Packing Company
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1965-07-29· cited 41×
• Dennis Frandsen v. Jensen-Sundquist Agency, Inc. And First Wisconsin Corporation
  First Circuit· 1986-10-01· cited 37×
• Westinghouse Electric Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-01-13· cited 36×
• Hesston Corp. v. Kays
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-03-11· cited 28×
• Applebaum v. Avaya, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-11-20· cited 28×
• Lillian S. Rauch v. Rca Corporation, General Electric Company and Gesub, Inc., Defendants
  Second Circuit· 1988-11-03· cited 20×
• Allstate Insurance v. Countrywide Financial Corp.
  C.D. California· 2012-02-02· cited 11×
• Baker v. Providence & Worcester Company
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1976-07-30· cited 7×
• Willard v. HARRWORTH CORPORATION
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1970-06-16· cited 2×
• Orzeck v. Englehart
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1963-06-12· cited 1×
• Fisher v. Tails, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2015-01-08
• City of North Miami Beach General Employees' Retirement Plan v. Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2018-06-01
• City of N. Miami Beach Gen. Employees' Ret. Plan v. DR Pepper Snapple Grp., Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2018-06-01
• Asaf Barkan v. Exabeam, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2025-04-11

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sterling v. Mayflower Hotel Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1952-11-18· cited 196×
• Drug, Inc. v. Hunt
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1933-03-02· cited 87×
• Finch v. Warrior Cement Corp.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1928-02-08· cited 62×
• Argenbright v. Phoenix Finance Co. of Iowa
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1936-07-14· cited 29×
• Hariton v. Arco Electronics, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1963-01-24· cited 17×
• Langfelder v. Universal Laboratories, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 1946-11-20· cited 15×
• Heilbrunn v. Sun Chemical Corporation
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1959-05-05· cited 7×

Other cases named Hariton v. Arco Electronics, Inc.

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• Hariton v. Arco Electronics, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1963-01-24· cited 17×
• Hariton v. Arco Electronics, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1962-06-13· cited 11×
• Hariton v. Arco Electronics, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1962-06-13· cited 7×