Avellone v. Avellone’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 679 So. 2d 1160 - Cerniglia v. Cerniglia · 821 So. 2d 350 - Delissio v. Delissio
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.
“A marital settlement agreement is a contract subject to interpretation like any other contract. Delissio v. Delissio, 821 So.2d 350, 353 (Fla. 1st DCA 2002).... Where an agreement’s terms are unambiguous, a court must treat the written instrument as evidence of the agreement’s meaning and the parties’ intention. Id. A court must not isolate a single term or group of words and read that part in isolation. Id. Rather, the goal is to arrive at a reasonable interpretation of the text of the entire agreement in order to accomplish the agreement’s stated meaning and purpose. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Lutz
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.