A Delaware Court of Chancery judge on Monday said that two recent decisions from the state Supreme Court represented an “unprecedented shift” in the way the state handles appraisal cases and that it would be up to the high court to sift through the errors in a ruling decision that has rankled petitioners and raised questions about the future of appraisal in the First State.

The remarks from Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster came in a 58-page decision denying reargument in one of the most notable cases to follow a pair of Supreme Court decisions, which indicated a strong preference for deal price as the indicator of fair value and signaled tighter scrutiny of appraisal actions.