34 Md. App. 115 - Weitz v. Marram’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2016
2 district · 12 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 Davis v. Wells · Weitz v. MacKenzie · Hooper v. Hooper · Jackson v. Cupples · Sheeler v. Holt
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the duty of the principal to the creditor is fully satisfied, the surety to the extent that he has contributed to this satisfaction is subrogated (d) to the rights of the creditor against cosureties and to the creditor’s interest in security held by them, but in such case the cosurety’s personal liability is limited to the amount which will satisfy his duty to contribute his share of the principal’s default.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wetzler v. Cantor · In Re Wetzler“a. Subrogation. Subrogation is a term describing the equitable remedy by which, where the property of one person is used to discharge a duty of another or a lien upon the property of another, under such circumstances that the other will be unjustly enriched by the retention of the benefit thus conferred, the former is placed in the position of the obligee or lienholder.... Comment on Clause (d): i. The surety who satisfies the principal’s duty may be subrogated to the creditor’s rights not only against the principal but to the creditor’s right against cosuret-ies and to the creditor’s interest in security held by cosureties. In the enforcement of the creditor’s rights the surety’s recovery is limited to the cosurety’s contributive share....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Wetzler
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.