equitable subrogation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 296 U.S. 133 - American Surety Co of New York v. Westinghouse Electric Mfg Co · 1935Most cited · 208 citing opinions
A surety liable only for part of the debt does not become subrogated to collateral or to remedies available to the creditor unless he pays the whole debt or it is otherwise satisfied.
How often courts cite the case defining “equitable subrogation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “equitable subrogation” — 208 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.