right of subrogation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 371 U.S. 132 - Pearlman v. Reliance Insurance · 1962Most cited · 1,230 citing opinions
probably there are few doctrines better established than that a surety who pays the debt of another is entitled to all the rights of the person he paid to enforce his right to be reimbursed. This rule, widely applied in this country and generally known as the right of subrogation
How often courts cite the case defining “right of subrogation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “right of subrogation” — 1,227 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.