Stevens v. Bispham’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 1993
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“[bjecause plaintiff believed that he would have been convicted anyway, he could not have then known [at the time he entered his no-contest plea] that defendant's allegedly negligent representation caused him any harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevens v. Bispham
How this case has been treated — in progress
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