Peters v. Sotheby's Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a seventy-year delay “has prejudiced the good-faith purchaser since none of the parties to the original sale of the painting . . . are alive”
• concluding that a failure to make a demand for the painting at issue was unreasonable where “the painting was exhibited as part of the [owner’s] collection at prominent museums, galleries, and universities”
• “[T]he doctrine of unclean hands does not preclude consideration of the laches defense because the Otten family’s alleged attempt to create a false provenance for the painting did not prejudice respondent.”
• “[T]he degree of diligence exercised by the true owner in attempting to locate the stolen property and identify its owner . . . is pertinent in the context of a laches defense.”
• plaintiff waited seventy years after learning of alleged conversion of artwork

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Vineberg v. Bissonnette
  First Circuit· 2008-11-19· cited 247×
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  Second Circuit· 2019-06-26· cited 42×
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  Second Circuit· 2018-10-16· cited 20×
• Dore v. Wormley
  S.D. New York· 2010-02-08· cited 18×
• Bishop v. Stevenson Common Assoc., L.P.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2010-06-22· cited 17×
• Jordan v. Metropolitan Jewish Hospice
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2014-11-12· cited 11×
• Swain v. Brown
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2016-01-28· cited 11×
• In re the Estate of Flamenbaum
  New York Court of Appeals· 2013-11-14· cited 11×
• Lehman XS Trust, Series 2006-4N v. Greenpoint Mortgage Funding, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2014-01-10· cited 9×
• McCulloch v. Town of Milan
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2010-06-15· cited 8×
• Mirvish v. Mott
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2010-05-27· cited 7×
• McGough v. Leslie
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2009-09-08· cited 5×
• In re the Estate of McLaughlin
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2010-11-04· cited 5×
• In re Cohen
  New York Supreme Court· 2009-08-17· cited 5×
• TAP Manutençáo e Engenharia Brasil S.A. v. International Aerospace Group, Corp.
  S.D. New York· 2015-09-01· cited 5×
• Matter of Perelman
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2014-12-04· cited 4×
• Vogel v. Tunick
  New York Surrogate's Court· 2008-03-14· cited 3×
• Schoeps v. Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2009-08-11· cited 1×
• Bennigson v. Solomon R. Guggenheim Found.
  New York Supreme Court, New York County· 2024-06-06· cited 1×
• Gowen v. Helly Nahmad Gallery, Inc.
  New York Supreme Court· 2018-05-08

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Guggenheim Foundation v. Lubell
  New York Court of Appeals· 1991-02-14· cited 139×
• Sporn v. MCA Records, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-03-31· cited 134×
• Austin v. Board of Higher Education
  New York Court of Appeals· 1959-04-09· cited 129×
• Mediavilla v. Gurman
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2000-05-11· cited 37×
• Kunstsammlungen Zu Weimar v. Elicofon
  E.D. New York· 1981-06-15· cited 35×
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation v. Lubell
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1990-01-25· cited 34×
• Porter v. Wertz
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-03-31· cited 32×
• Holzman v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2000-04-25· cited 28×
• Liberty Imports, Inc. v. Bourguet
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1989-01-24· cited 27×
• Porter v. Wertz
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1979-05-10· cited 21×
• Menzel v. List
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1964-10-06· cited 19×
• Smith v. Daca Taxi, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1995-12-05· cited 12×
• Wertheimer v. Cirker's Hayes Storage Warehouse, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2002-12-17· cited 11×
• Heide v. Glidden Buick Corp.
  Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York· 1947-01-02· cited 9×