VLIW TECHNOLOGY, LLC v. Hewlett-Packard Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that to plead a breach of contract claim, a plaintiff must allege “the breach of an obligation imposed by that contract”
• observing that the purpose of Rule 8 is to give the defendant “fair notice” of the claim being asserted against him
• noting that Rule 8 is intended to “give the defendant fair notice of a claim” being brought against it
• noting that, under Chancery Rule 8(a), a complaint must “give the defendant fair notice of a claim”
• concluding that “[b]ecause the provisions at issue in the [a]greement are susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation, for purposes of deciding a motion to dismiss, their meaning must be construed in the light most favorable to the non- moving party” (cleaned up)
• explaining that 18 the plaintiff must allege these three elements “to survive a motion to dismiss for failure to 19 state a breach of contract claim”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Nemec v. Shrader
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-04-06· cited 620×
• Kuroda v. SPJS Holdings, L.L.C.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2009-04-15· cited 353×
• Dunlap v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-07-13· cited 338×
• Doe v. Cahill
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-10-05· cited 267×
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. AIG Life Insurance
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-11-04· cited 257×
• Gantler v. Stephens
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-01-27· cited 244×
• Clinton v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-07-29· cited 205×
• Kuhn Construction, Inc. v. Diamond State Port Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-03-08· cited 187×
• Appriva Shareholder Litigation Co. v. Ev3, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-11-01· cited 179×
• Feldman v. Cutaia
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-05-30· cited 142×
• Reid v. Spazio
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-04-09· cited 127×
• McPadden v. Sidhu
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2008-08-29· cited 117×
• In Re J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Shareholder Litigation
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2005-04-29· cited 93×
• Avaya Inc. v. Telecom Labs, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 2016-09-30· cited 75×
• Sample v. Morgan
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2007-01-23· cited 69×
• Chubb & Son v. C & C Complete Services, LLC
  D. Maryland· 2013-01-23· cited 65×
• Connelly v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-03-04· cited 56×
• Trevino v. Merscorp, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 2008-09-30· cited 45×
• Guidance Endodontics, LLC v. Dentsply International, Inc.
  D. New Mexico· 2010-03-23· cited 43×
• In Re Verisign, Inc., Derivative Litigation
  N.D. California· 2007-09-14· cited 40×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Conley v. Gibson
  Supreme Court· 1957-11-18· cited 30,380×
• Savor, Inc. v. FMR Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-12-18· cited 706×
• Malpiede v. Townson
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-27· cited 604×
• In Re Santa Fe Pacific Corp. Shareholder Litigation
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-11-22· cited 306×
• Vanderbilt Income & Growth Associates, L.L.C. v. Arvida/JMB Managers, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-12-12· cited 180×
• In Re Tri-Star Pictures, Inc., Litigation
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-12-08· cited 169×
• Michelson v. Duncan
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1979-10-02· cited 142×
• Rabkin v. Philip A. Hunt Chemical Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-09-23· cited 141×
• McMullin v. Beran
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-11-20· cited 135×
• Kofron v. Amoco Chemicals Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-01-06· cited 121×
• Kaiser Aluminum Corp. v. Matheson
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-08-29· cited 103×
• Precision Air, Inc. v. Standard Chlorine of Delaware, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-02-09· cited 65×
• Goodrich v. E.F. Hutton Group, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1988-01-21· cited 33×
• Winston v. Mandor
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1997-05-12· cited 28×