Providence & Worcester Co. v. Baker

How courts have described this case

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

• refusal to read a bar to protective vóting provisions into 8 Del. C. § 212(a)
• “Under [§] 212(a), voting rights of stockholders may be varied from the ‘one share-one vote’ standard by the certificate of incorporation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Unocal Corp. v. Mesa Petroleum Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-06-10· cited 322×
• Salamone v. Gorman
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-12-09· cited 267×
• Williams v. Geier
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-01-23· cited 180×
• Moran v. Household International, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-11-20· cited 170×
• Nixon v. Blackwell
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-06-22· cited 114×
• Giuricich v. Emtrol Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-07-30· cited 110×
• McDermott Inc. v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-09-16· cited 93×
• Nottingham Partners v. Dana
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-08-29· cited 63×
• Berlin v. Emerald Partners
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-01-12· cited 30×
• Speiser v. Baker
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1987-03-19· cited 27×
• In Re Digex, Inc. Shareholders Litigation
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2000-12-13· cited 23×
• Asarco Inc. v. Court
  D. New Jersey· 1985-05-06· cited 19×
• Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. v. Conoco, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 1981-07-23· cited 17×
• Dynamics Corp. of America v. CTS Corp.
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-11-03· cited 16×
• Amalgamated Sugar Co. v. NL Industries, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1986-08-05· cited 14×
• Lacos Land Co. v. Arden Group, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1986-07-31· cited 13×
• Russ v. Federal Mogul Corp.
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1982-01-19· cited 12×
• Gelco Corp. v. Coniston Partners
  D. Minnesota· 1986-11-10· cited 10×
• Dynamics Corp. of America v. CTS Corp.
  N.D. Illinois· 1986-04-17· cited 10×
• In Re Sea-Land Corp. Shareholders Litigation
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1993-03-26· cited 8×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lehrman v. Cohen
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1966-07-08· cited 21×
• Baker v. Providence & Worcester Company
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1976-07-30· cited 7×