Agere Systems, Inc. v. Advanced Environmental Technology Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Spencer Gifts, Inc. v. Olitsky · Ames v. Sundance State Bank · Big Apple BMW, Inc. v. BMW of North America, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unlike the right of contribution, common law indemnity is an 'equitable remedy that shifts the entire responsibility for damages from a party who, without any fault, has been required to pay because of a legal relationship to the party at fault.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the parties' conduct does not manifest mutual assent because there is no evidence that either party's conduct conformed to a number of the essential terms of the purported contract”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to be joint tortfeasors, 'the parties must either act together in committing the wrong, or their acts, if independent of each other, must unite in causing a single injury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.