Thompson v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Gill v. Rollins Protective Services Co. (1985), Atlantic Permanent Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. American Casualty Co. (1988)
6 federal appellate · 8 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 Federal Land Bank v. Joynes · Osborne v. Cabell · Willard v. Worsham · Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Whaley · Smith v. Mangels
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever one person is compelled to pay a debt or discharge an obligation for which he is only secondarily liable, in person or in property, and hence has recourse over against the person or the property primarily liable, for exoneration or contribution, a court of equity will subrogate the person thus secondarily liable to the position of the creditor whom he has satisfied, as to every lien, preference or other special advantage possessed by the latter at the time of such payment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Virginia has long been committed to a liberal application of subrogation”
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.