Pearlman v. Reliance Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
268 federal appellate · 112 district · 146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,230 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Department of the Army v. Blue Fox, Inc. (1999), O'Rourke v. Seaboard Surety Co. (1989)
268 federal appellate · 112 district · 146 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 104 · 11 U.S.C. § 110
Relies on Aquilino v. United States · United States v. Munsey Trust Co. · Prairie State Nat Bank of Chicago v. United States · Henningsen v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
Cited together with Prairie State Nat Bank of Chicago v. United States · Henningsen v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · United States v. Munsey Trust Co. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
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 1,230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a surety who pays the debt of another is entitled to all the rights of the person he paid to enforce his right to be reimbursed.”
80 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f the Principal [Piracci] shall promptly make payment to all persons supplying labor and material in the prosecution of the work provided for in said contract, and any and all duly authorized modifications of said contract that may hereafter be made, notice of which modification to the Surety(ies) [Aetna] being hereby waived, then the above obligation [of Aetna] shall be void and of no effect.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'The right of subrogation is not founded on contract. It is a creature of equity; is enforced solely for the purpose of accomplishing the ends of substantial justice; and is independent of any contractual relations between the parties.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.