Critchlow v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2014
8 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 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · 369 So. 2d 938 - Excelsior Ins. Co. v. Pomona Park Bar & Package Store · Del Vecchio v. Del Vecchio · 418 So. 2d 437 - Laufer v. Norma Fashions, Inc. · INNKEEPERS INTL., INC. v. McCoy Motels, Ltd.
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.
“[i]n interpreting prenuptial agreements, the courts are guided by the same principles which control the construction of other contracts. Hall v. Hall, 135 So.2d 432 (Fla. 3d DCA 1961). Where a contract is clear and unambiguous, it is the best evidence of the intent of the parties and its meaning and legal effect are questions of law for determination by the court alone. Innkeepers Inter., Inc. v. McCoy Motels, Ltd., 324 So.2d 676 (Fla. 4th DCA 1976 [1975]). However, if a provision is ambiguous, the matter must be submitted to the finder of fact. See Hoffman v. Terry, 397 So.2d 1184 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981). In Laufer v. Norma Fashions, Inc., 418 So.2d 437 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982), the court explained that a phrase in a contract is "ambiguous" when it is uncertain of meaning and disputed and must be determined as an issue of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In interpreting prenuptial agreements, the courts are guided by the same principles which control the construction of other contracts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if a provision is ambiguous, the matter must be submitted to the finder of fact”
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.