209 So. 2d 355 - Sciortino v. Sciortino’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““On August 11, 1965, Philip Sciortino filed suit against his estranged wife to have this property partitioned and this court, in an opinion rendered in June 1966, ordered the partition. “After this court had ordered the partition and remanded the case to permit introduction of evidence on the community property issue, Philip Sciortino on the advice of his attorney sold the property to his brother. The act was passed November 11, 1966 by Joseph Russo, defendant’s attorney in this matter. The recited consideration was $5,000 cash assumption of a mortgage in favor of Thomas Orto-lano for $10,507.04, and for the balance, purchaser executed a Bearer note in the amount of $11,992.96. “From the testimony of Warren Scior-tino, the purchaser, it is abundantly clear that the sale constituted an attempt to divest Regina Sciortino of her interest in the property. The purchaser stated that he was advised that under an article of the Civil Code, yet untested by litigation, the sale might be valid. Warren was guaranteed that if the sale was declared to be invalid, his $5,000 would be refunded. * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 228 So. 2d 736 - Russo v. Kelly

2. “When spouses have been living separate and apart continuously for a period of two years or more either spouse may sue for and obtain a judgment of absolute divorce.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. Miller