708 So. 2d 797 - Smith v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · 623 So. 2d 1257 - Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp. · Maritime Overseas Corp. v. Hae Woo Youn · 605 So. 2d 1032 - Roberts v. Benoit · 630 So. 2d 741 - Brown v. Drillers, 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an agreement between two or more persons, who, for preventing or putting an end to a lawsuit, adjust their differences by mutual consent, in the manner which they agree on, and which every one of them prefers to the hope of gaining, balanced by the danger of losing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant bears the burden of establishing the requisites for a valid compromise, including the intent to settle the differences being asserted in the action in which it is interposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen the words of a contract are clear and explicit and lead to no absurd consequences, no further interpretation may be made in search of the parties' intent.”
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.