Stowers v. Wheat’s Empirical Analysis
78 F.2d 25 · 1935
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1956
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Rogers v. Hill · Wilkins, Neely & Jones v. Gibson · Cain v. Bonner · Boley v. Daniel · Burnhisel v. Firman
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It [subrogation] is applicable only in cases where the party invoking it has been required to pay a debt for which another is primarily answerable, and which in equity and good conscience that other ought to pay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bruce v. McClure
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.