Robbins v. Slavin’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2009
5 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 Graham v. O'Connor · Northern Trust Co. v. Sanford · Caswell v. Caswell · Wright v. Simpson · Correll v. Greider
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Conwell v. McCowan, 53 Ill. 363, and Elgin Nat. Bank v. Goecke, 295 Ill. 403, 408, [129 N.E. 149], it is stated as an elementary principle of subrogation that the right does not exist until the surety has actually paid the debt. In 25 R.C.L. § 6, p. 1318, is a full discussion of the subject of Subrogation, the author saying that a person is not entitled to be subrogated to a creditor's securities until the claim of the creditor has been paid in full. `A pro tanto assignment or subrogation will not be allowed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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