Bater v. Cleaver’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2009
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
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 Offer v. Superior Court · Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp. v. Hooker Electrochemical Co. · Pittsburgh-Westmoreland Coal Co. v. . Kerr · Northern Trust Co. v. Consolidated Elevator Co. · Paton v. Robinson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Subrogation] is a remedy which is highly favored. The courts are inclined rather to extend than restrict the principle. Although formerly the right was limited to transactions between principals and sureties, it is now broad and expansive, and has a very liberal application.”
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.