Miller v. Steward’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 310 · 1976
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably 83 Cal. App. 3d 1 - Walters v. Marler (1978), Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Center Wholesale, Inc. (1985)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 59 Cal. 2d 35 - Roseleaf Corp. v. Chierighino · 15 Cal. 3d 590 - Cornelison v. Kornbluth · 54 Cal. 2d 632 - Fifield Manor v. Finston · 45 Cal. 2d 462 - Freedland v. Greco · Employers Mutual Liability Insurance v. Pacific Indemnity Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Payment must have been made by the subrogee to protect his own interest. (2) The subrogee must not have acted as a volunteer. (3) The debt paid must be one for which the subrogee was not primarily liable. (4) The entire debt must have been paid. (5) Subrogation must not work any injustice to the rights of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No judgment shall be rendered for any deficiency upon a note secured by a deed of trust or mortgage upon real property hereafter executed in any case in which the real property had been sold by the mortgagee or trustee under power of sale contained in such mortgage or deed of trust.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"It is also true that the Act does not vest the trustee with any better right or title to the bankrupt's property than belonged to the bankrupt at the moment of bankruptcy. (subject to exceptions not applicable here) 4A Collier on Bankruptcy 55 (14th Ed.) 1975." 529 F.2d at 316 .”
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.