Shields v. Shields

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that at the effective time, the stock of the merged corporation “ceases to exist legally” and “[t]he subject matter of the stockholders’ agreement thus vanishes, so to speak”
• explaining that at the effective time, the stock of the merged corporation “ceases to exist legally” and “[t]he subject matter of the stockholders’ agreement thus vanishes, so to speak”
• explaining that at the effective time, “the stock in a constituent corporation (other than the surviving corporation) ceases to exist legally . . . and its place is taken by a stock interest in another, distinct corporation”
• explaining that at the effective time, “the stock in a constituent corporation (other than the surviving corporation) ceases to exist legally . . . and its place is taken by a stock interest in another, distinct corporation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Katz v. Oak Industries Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2008-11-07· cited 108×
• Sealy Mattress Co. of New Jersey v. Sealy, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1987-07-24· cited 62×
• Seven Springs Farm, Inc. v. Croker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-07-16· cited 49×
• Seabreak Homeowners Ass'n, Inc. v. Gresser
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1986-08-22· cited 41×
• Dennis Frandsen v. Jensen-Sundquist Agency, Inc. And First Wisconsin Corporation
  First Circuit· 1986-10-01· cited 37×
• Versyss Incorporated v. Coopers and Lybrand, Etc.
  First Circuit· 1992-12-30· cited 36×
• Seven Springs Farm, Inc. v. Croker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-13· cited 36×
• Baldwin v. Bader
  First Circuit· 2009-10-19· cited 20×
• McCann Surveyors, Inc. v. Evans
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1987-07-24· cited 20×
• Kaiser Steel Resources, Inc. v. Jacobs (In Re Kaiser Steel Corp.)
  D. Colorado· 1990-01-22· cited 19×
• Lacos Land Co. v. Arden Group, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1986-07-31· cited 13×
• In Re Anderson, Clayton Shareholders'litigation
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1986-06-10· cited 8×
• Couch v. Delmarva Power & Light Co.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1991-03-20· cited 8×
• Satterfield v. Monsanto Co.
  S.D. New York· 2000-03-27· cited 3×
• Fitzgerald v. Reardon
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1990-02-28· cited 3×
• Bear, Stearns & Co. v. Anderson
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1986-06-10· cited 1×
• MICHAEL C. HALPIN v. RIVERSTONE NATIONAL, INC.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2015-02-26
• Versyss Incorporated v. Coopers
  First Circuit· 1992-12-30
• QC Holdings, Inc. v. Allconnect, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2018-08-27
• Western Standard, LLC v. SourceHOV Holdings, Inc. and Pangea Acquisitions, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2019-08-21

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Unocal Corp. v. Mesa Petroleum Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-06-10· cited 322×
• Gimbel v. Signal Companies, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1974-01-10· cited 116×
• Gimbel v. Signal Companies, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1974-02-07· cited 100×
• Orzeck v. Englehart
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1963-11-05· cited 48×
• Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. v. Conoco, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 1981-07-23· cited 17×
• McCarthy v. Osborn
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1953-04-27· cited 14×
• Thompson v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1972-06-10· cited 13×
• Silversmiths Co. v. Reed & Barton Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1908-06-16· cited 10×
• Langfelder v. Universal Laboratories, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1947-10-01· cited 7×
• Union Chemical & Materials Corp. v. Cannon
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1959-02-11· cited 4×
• Orzeck v. Englehart
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1963-06-12· cited 1×

Other cases named Shields v. Shields

27 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Shields v. Shields
  California Court of Appeal· 1962-02-07· cited 30×
• Shields v. Shields
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2003-02-19· cited 24×
• Shields v. Shields
  California Court of Appeal· 1942-11-17· cited 21×
• Shields v. Shields
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-02-25· cited 16×
• Shields v. Shields
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1919-10-03· cited 11×
• Shields v. Shields
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1921-10-18· cited 9×
• Shields v. Shields
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1920-10-08· cited 6×
• Shields v. Shields
  W.D. Missouri· 1939-01-20· cited 5×
• Shields v. Shields
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1929-03-11· cited 4×
• Shields v. Shields
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-09-26· cited 3×
• Shields v. Shields
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-04-27· cited 2×
• Shields v. Shields
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1965-02-01· cited 1×
• Shields v. Shields
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1989-12-11· cited 1×
• Shields v. Shields
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1991-12-26· cited 1×
• Shields v. Shields
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1971-10-07· cited 1×
• Shields v. Shields
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1988-02-26· cited 1×
• Shields v. Shields
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-10-03
• Shields v. Shields
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2010-06-25
• Shields v. Shields
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-06-26
• Shields v. Shields
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-04-18
• Shields v. Shields
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1938-06-28
• Shields v. Shields
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1938-11-16
• Shields v. Shields
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-04-18
• Shields v. Shields
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 1902-08-15
• Shields v. Shields
  D.C. Circuit· 1938-12-05
• Shields v. Shields
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1995-06-07
• Shields v. Shields
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2024-12-23