Tusso v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• defining “a special law as: ‘[o]ne relating to particular persons or things; one made for individual cases or for particular places or districts’” (quoting Black’s Law Dictionary) (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State Ex Rel. Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control v. Phillips
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1979-03-01· cited 10×
• Ullman v. Santow
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1960-05-20· cited 3×
• Christiana Care Health Services, Inc. v. John Carney
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2025-05-30

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Application of Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1950-07-21· cited 86×
• State v. Emerson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1939-12-29· cited 23×
• Piekarski v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1959-07-28· cited 16×
• Wright v. Husbands
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1957-04-25· cited 12×
• Chew v. City of Philadelphia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1917-04-30· cited 12×
• Bittner v. West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal Co.
  Fourth Circuit· 1926-10-29· cited 10×
• Condron v. Pennsylvania Railroad
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1911-10-09· cited 9×
• State Highway Commissioner v. Chambersburg & Bedford Turnpike Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1913-06-27· cited 9×
• Smith v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1951-11-29· cited 6×
• Tusso v. Smith
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1959-12-15· cited 5×