420 So. 2d 1113 - Scafidi v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 579 So. 2d 1115 - Ouachita Nat. v. Gulf States Land & Dev. (1991), McCarroll v. McCarroll (1997)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Gulf States Finance Corp. v. Airline Auto Sales Inc. · Rinaldi v. Young · 409 So. 2d 316 - Scafidi v. Johnson · 413 So. 2d 499 - Scafidi v. Johnson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Between the parties to an instrument, parol evidence is admissible `to show fraud, mistake, illegality, want or failure of consideration, to explain an ambiguity when such explanation is not inconsistent with the written terms, or to show that the writing is only a part of an entire oral contract between the parties.'”
2 later decisions 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.