Dent v. Wait's Admr.’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1925
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 Hill v. Manser · Bell v. Morrison
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no better doctrine settled in this state, than that where a security pays a judgment for another, he is entitled to be substituted to all the rights and remedies of the creditor against the principal debtor subsisting at the time, he became so bound for the debt. Robinson v. Sherman, 2 Gratt. 178 ; Preston v. Preston, 8 Gratt 88; Hill v. Manser, 11 Gratt. 522 , and numerous other cases might be referred to.””
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.