597 So. 2d 693 - Cleghorn v. Scribner’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2018
3 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 Boles v. Blackstock · Miles v. Barrett · 495 So. 2d 621 - Trio Broadcasters, Inc. v. Ward · Taylor v. Dorough · 439 So. 2d 74 - Henson v. Estes Health Care Center, Inc.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[I]n the absence of fraud, a release supported by a valuable consideration, unambiguous in meaning, will be given effect according to the intention of the parties from what appears within the four corners of the instrument itself, and parol evidence may not be introduced to establish the existence of a mutual mistake of fact when the release was signed as a basis for a rescission of that release."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cain v. Saunders
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.