128 So. 2d 427 - Kyle v. Kyle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Florida zealously maintains a traditional interest in preserving her sovereign and exclusive dominion over the lands located within her borders and has also evinced an abiding concern for the right of dower. The courts have kept vigil over the widow’s right in this respect. Expressive of this is the statement by Lord Bacon of a common observation of his day that ‘The law favored three things: Life, liberty and dower.’ Moore v. Price, 1929, 98 Fla. 276 , 123 So. 768, 772 ; and 11 Fla. Jur., section 3, p. 32.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Robison v. Krause

2. “708.07 Specific performance against married woman Coverture shall not prevent a decree against husband and wife or either of them to specifically perform their written agreement to sell or convey the separate property of the wife or to relinquish her right of dower in the property of the husband, regardless of whether the same shall be acknowledged or not.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dolan v. Wright

3. “whether the antenuptial agreement, validly executed in Canada without witnesses, should be deemed, by application of Canadian law, as operative in Florida with respect to dower in Florida realty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 139 So. 2d 885 - Kyle v. Kyle