Opp v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1980
1 district · 15 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 Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford v. Town of Middleport Same · Home Insurance v. Gilman · Barnes v. . Mott · Morningstar v. Cunningham · Acer v. . Hotchkiss
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Subrogation is an equitable device, and rests upon the principles of justice and equity which it is intended to accomplish. The doctrine is well established that one who occupies tho attitude of a surety will be subrogated to all the rights, remedies, and securities which the creditor held, in case the former has been compelled to pay a debt which, in equity and good conscience, should have been paid by another. Payment by tho surety is equivalent to a purchase from the creditor, and operates as an equitable assignment of the debt, and all its incidents, to the former. * * * “The application of tho doctrino of subrogation requires * * * that in paying the debt the person paying acted under the compulsion of saving himself from loss, and not as a mere volunteer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.