499 So. 2d 880 - Cunningham v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2013
9 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 476 So. 2d 671 - Marquez v. State · Lee v. Lee · 456 So. 2d 520 - Newsome v. Newsome
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.
“[i]t is well-established that the statutory right to petition for modification of an alimony award may be intentionally or impliedly waived and that the waiver may be stated in express terms or through interpretation of the agreement as a whole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An agreement to waive the right to modification of alimony “must be specifically expressed by clear language evincing an intent to waive all such rights in the future.” Newsome v. Newsome, 456 So.2d 520 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Filipov v. Filipov“indicates a clear intention by the parties that the agreed-upon provisions for alimony would be controlling, and that its terms would be modifiable only as authorized therein,”
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.