Lee v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2019
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 463 So. 2d 1153 - Jones v. Utica Mut. Ins. Co. · Florida Bar Re Rules Regulating the Florida Bar · 366 So. 2d 1199 - Travelers Ins. Co. v. CJ Gayfer's & Co. · 620 So. 2d 786 - ROYAL OAK LANDING HOME-OWNER'S ASS'N v. Pelletier
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, in the absence of some ambiguity, the intent of the parties to a written contract must be ascertained from the words used in the contract, without resort to extrinsic evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.