Libeau v. Fox

How courts have described this case

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

• “The statutory partition action is the practical means that Delaware uses to break these unwholesome stalemates.”
• “If a physical division of the property would be detrimental to the co-owners' interests, the Court of Chancery may order that the property be sold at public auction and the proceeds divided among the co-owners.”
• “If a physical division of the property would be detrimental to the co-owners‟ interests, the Court of Chancery may order that the property be sold at public auction and the proceeds divided among the co- owners.”
• “Delaware law recognizes the long-standing common law principle that there must be a default rule that permits co-owners of land, who cannot agree on how to use it, to end their joint tenancy.”
• “The trial court then applied settled law, as articulated in . . . the Restatement (First) of Property § 406 (1944) . . . . We affirm that holding on the basis of and for the reasons stated in the Court of Chancery’s opinion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

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  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2006-02-14· cited 354×
• Salamone v. Gorman
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-12-09· cited 267×
• Nationwide Emerging Managers, LLC v. Northpointe Holdings, LLC
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-03-18· cited 93×
• NAF Holdings, LLC v. Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-06-24· cited 58×
• Shawe v. Elting
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-02-13· cited 53×
• Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. v. Vulcan Materials Co.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2012-05-04· cited 23×
• James v. National Financial, LLC
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2016-03-14· cited 22×
• EV3, Inc. v. Lesh, M.D.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-09-30· cited 15×
• Sally C. Pew v. Robert N. Sayler
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2015-09-01· cited 4×
• REDUS Peninsula Millsboro, LLC v. Mayer
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2014-08-29
• NAMA Holdings, LLC v. Related WMC LLC
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2014-11-18
• Dominick A. Pulieri v. Boardwalk Properties, LLC
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2015-02-18
• Nationwide Emerging Managers, LLC
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-03-27
• EV3, Inc. v. Lesh, M.D.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-04-20
• Chapter 7 Trustee Constantino Flores v. Strauss Water Ltd.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2016-09-22
• Standard General L.P. v. Dov Charney
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2017-12-19
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  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2018-02-01
• In re Oxbow Carbon LLC Unitholder Litigation
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2018-02-12
• Composecure, L.L.C. v. CardUX, LLC f/k/a Affluent Card, LLC
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2018-02-12
• Change Capital Partners Fund I, LLC v. Volt Electrical Systems, LLC
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Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cerberus International, Ltd. v. Apollo Management L.P.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-03-13· cited 127×
• Libeau v. Fox
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2005-06-16· cited 61×
• Shoup v. Shoup
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 43×
• Condrey v. Condrey
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-01-30· cited 37×
• Collins v. Burke
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-07-03· cited 32×
• Stromsen v. Stromsen
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1947-05-22· cited 19×
• Peters v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-01-27· cited 9×