Piemonte v. New Boston Garden Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• without referring to a burden of proof, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court concludes that weightings by trial court were “reasonable” and within its discretion
• upholding judge’s method of valuing Boston Garden Arena Corporation stock
• judge was not required to assign a specific weight to market value or to rely exclusively on net asset value but, instead, “the judge was acting within an acceptable range of discretion in selecting the weights he gave to the various factors”
• judge not required to believe evidence even when uncontroverted
• describing Delaware corporate law as “instructive but not binding”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Blasingame v. American Materials, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-07-18· cited 76×
• In the Matter of Saab
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-12-18· cited 68×
• Coggins v. New England Patriots Football Club, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-05-14· cited 67×
• In Re Valuation of Common Stock of McLoon Oil Co.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1989-11-03· cited 60×
• Sarrouf v. New England Patriots Football Club, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-05-14· cited 38×
• Leader v. Hycor, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-06-18· cited 37×
• Schoenholtz v. Doniger
  S.D. New York· 1987-03-26· cited 31×
• Shear v. Gabovitch
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-10-14· cited 28×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 91,537 Helen H. Pavlidis v. New England Patriots Football Club, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1984-06-22· cited 27×
• Bucktown Partners v. Johnson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-11-10· cited 22×
• Horizon House-Microwave, Inc. v. BAZZY BAZZY
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-12-09· cited 21×
• Halliwell Associates, Inc. v. C. E. Maguire Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1991-02-01· cited 21×
• Casey v. Casey
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-06-07· cited 21×
• General Dynamics Corp. v. Board of Assessors of Quincy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-01-21· cited 17×
• Maz Partners LP v. Shear (In Re PHC, Inc. S'holder Litig.)
  First Circuit· 2018-07-02· cited 17×
• Steranko v. Inforex, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1979-10-29· cited 15×
• Sullivan v. First Massachusetts Financial Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-04-17· cited 15×
• BNE Massachusetts Corp. v. Sims
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1992-03-02· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Gordon
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-05-05· cited 12×
• Portland Natural Gas Transmission System v. 19.2 Acres of Land
  First Circuit· 2003-01-31· cited 11×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Rollins Environmental Services, Inc. v. Superior Court
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-06-19· cited 197×
• Amory v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1947-04-09· cited 59×
• C. W. Hunt Co. v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1908-06-09· cited 53×
• Application of Delaware Racing Association
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1965-08-02· cited 48×
• Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Francis I. duPont & Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-01-20· cited 47×
• Cole v. Wells
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1916-06-21· cited 35×
• Loschi v. Massachusetts Port Authority
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-05-02· cited 31×
• Ryder v. Town of Lexington
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-05-29· cited 31×
• City of Revere v. Revere Construction Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-02-14· cited 23×
• Gibbons v. Schenley Industries, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1975-05-16· cited 22×
• Felder v. Anderson, Clayton & Co.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1960-02-02· cited 18×
• Heller v. Munsingwear, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1953-07-23· cited 16×
• Poirier v. Superior Court
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1958-05-08· cited 15×
• Martignette v. Sagamore Manufacturing Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-12-17· cited 11×
• Martin v. Otis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1919-09-11· cited 9×