Stilson v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2020
1 district · 4 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 Parker v. Artery · Criss v. Folger Drilling Co. · Commercial Union Insurance Co. v. Postin · Independent National Bank v. Westmoor Electric, Inc. · Mid-States Sales Co. v. Mountain Empire Dairymen's Ass'n
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.
“Conventional subrogation, which can take effect only by agreement, is synon ymous with assignment. Northern Utilities Division of K N Energy, Inc. v. Town of Evansville, 822 P.2d 829, 836 (Wyo.1991). Subrogation is defined as being “ ‘the substitution of another person in the place of a creditor, so that the person in whose favor [the subrogation] is exercised succeeds to the rights of the creditor in relation to the debt.’ ” Commercial Union Insurance Company v. Postin, 610 P.2d 984, 986 (Wyo.1980) (quoting Criss v. Folger Drilling Company, 195 Kan. 552 , 407 P.2d 497, 500 (1965)). “[I]n Wyoming, causes of action for damage or injury to persons and property survive and are assignable, and consequently can be the subject of a claim for conventional subrogation.” Northern Utilities Division of K N Energy, Inc., 822 P.2d at 837 . Likewise, a judgment creditor may assign his rights in the judgment to a third party. 47 Am.Jur.2d Judgments § 1011 (1995). The assignment of a part of a debt transfers an equitable interest in that part of the debt to the assignee. 6 Am.Jur.2d Assignments § 81 (1963). In order to prevent the debtor from paying the assignor, the assignee must give the debtor notice that the assignment has been made. See id. “The general rule is that if the debtor pays the assignor after notice of a partial assignment of the debt, [the debtor] may be held liable in equity by the assignee.” Id. at 262. See also Independent National Bank v. Westmoor Electric, Inc., 164 Ar”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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