Willcox v. Stern

How courts have described this case

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

• “[W]here a merger is consummated in accordance with statutory procedures, the remedy of appraisal and payment is the only one available to dissenting stockholders.”
• “equity will act — despite the existence of an appraisal remedy— where there is fraud or illegality”
• under comparable New York statute which, prior to amendment, made appraisal exclusive dissenting shareholder’s remedy, held: the merged corporation’s shareholder has only one right — to have the value of his holding protected, and that protection is given him by his right of appraisal

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Cited by

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

• Yanow v. Teal Industries, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1979-07-10· cited 331×
• Alpert v. 28 Williams Street Corp.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-11-29· cited 110×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,448 Arnold Marshel v. Afw Fabric Corp., Barry L. Swift v. Concord Fabrics Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1976-02-13· cited 35×
• Breed v. Barton
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-10-29· cited 34×
• Pellman v. Cinerama, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1980-11-07· cited 29×
• Twenty Seven Trust v. Realty Growth Investors
  D. Maryland· 1982-02-22· cited 26×
• Walter J. Schloss Associates v. Arkwin Industries, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1982-11-29· cited 24×
• Denise R. v. Lavine
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-04-06· cited 21×
• Teschner v. Chicago Title & Trust Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1974-09-27· cited 19×
• Klurfeld v. Equity Enterprises, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1981-02-17· cited 16×
• Green v. Santa Fe Industries, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1975-03-27· cited 13×
• Grimes v. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc.
  N.D. Florida· 1974-07-15· cited 12×
• Smith v. First Alamogordo Bancorp, Inc.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1992-08-24· cited 9×
• Perl v. IU International Corp.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1980-03-06· cited 9×
• Tanzer Economic Associates, Inc. v. Universal Food Specialties, Inc.
  New York Supreme Court· 1976-03-10· cited 8×
• Grace v. Rosenstock
  E.D. New York· 1998-10-29· cited 7×
• Porter v. D'Elia
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1987-12-21· cited 7×
• Clark v. Pattern Analysis & Recognition Corp.
  New York Supreme Court· 1976-06-02· cited 7×
• First Union National Bank v. Quality Carriers Inc.
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 2000-10-10· cited 7×
• Marshel v. AFW Fabric Corp.
  S.D. New York· 1975-06-24· cited 6×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1944-05-22· cited 1,072×
• Rochester Telephone Corp. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1939-04-17· cited 627×
• Voeller v. Neilston Warehouse Co.
  Supreme Court· 1941-01-06· cited 72×
• Eisenberg v. Central Zone Property Corp.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1953-10-22· cited 21×
• Coyne v. Park & Tilford Distillers Corp.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1959-10-29· cited 18×
• Blumenthal v. Roosevelt Hotel, Inc.
  New York Supreme Court· 1952-07-14· cited 17×
• Tabulating Card Company, Inc. v. Leidesdorf
  New York Supreme Court· 1959-04-13· cited 5×
• Burg v. Burg Trucking Corp.
  New York Supreme Court· 1960-05-02· cited 1×

Other cases named Willcox v. Stern

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Willcox v. Stern
  New York Supreme Court· 1964-12-14· cited 4×
• Willcox v. Stern
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1965-11-04· cited 1×