Howell v. Dowling’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2017
6 federal appellate · 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 Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Ass'n v. Bentley · Fontana Land Co. v. Laughlin · Grant v. Burr · Shaffer v. McCloskey · Puckhaber v. Henry
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Furthermore, equity will enforce sub-rogation only when the action is brought within the time in which an action could have been brought to enforce the original obligation to which the right of subrogation is sought. 41 C.J. p. 583. “In the instant case the statute of limitations had run against the note secured by the earlier Mercantile Mortgage Company’s deed of trust before the action was commenced. “There is some apparent conflict in the California decisions on these doctrines which, however, can be reconciled upon reading all of the cases and considering them together. Ht % * * * * “But in the decisions in these cases there is nothing to- show that the statute of limitations was raised as a defense. “And in every reported case in which the distinctions in the application of the so-called doctrine of equitable subrogation are discussed, or where the defense of the statute of limitations is raised, the holding has been in harmony with this decision. (Citing numerous authorities.)””
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.