Sequa Corp. v. Gelmin’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2023
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Goldman v. Belden · Cosmas v. Hassett · Hooper Associates Ltd. v. AGS Computers, Inc. · Hadden v. Consolidated Edison Co. · Heimbach v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effect of such an interpretation ... would be to convert the agreement into a release — if Sequa sued defendants and prevailed, defendants could seek indemnification from Sequa’s subsidiary for any resulting liability and expenses. Such an intent is not unmistakably clear.”
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.