Conascenta v. Giordano’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2018
7 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 The Ozark Corp. v. Pattishall · State v. City of Miami · 106 So. 2d 212 - McRay v. B. A. Schiff & Associates
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where, as in the case at bar, a literal interpretation of the statute would lead to an unreasonable conclusion or purpose not designated by the legislature, it is the court's duty to interpret the statute in accord with the clear purpose and intent of the legislature. See Ozark Corporation v. Pattishall, 135 Fla. 610 , 185 So. 333 ; State v. City of Miami, 101 Fla. 292 , 134 So. 608 ; Maryland Casualty Company v. Marshall, Fla.App. 1958, 106 So.2d 212 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"All wills offered for and admitted to probate subsequent to June 11, 1951, made by husband or wife who have been divorced from each other subsequent to the date of said will, shall be made null and void by means of said divorce insofar as said will affects the surviving divorced spouse."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that to permit [Ms. Conascenta] to recover on the ground that she was not the legal spouse of the deceased would be contrary to the purpose and intent of the legislature in enacting [ section] 731.101.”
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.