135 N.C. App. 125 - Blackmon v. Bumgardner’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Hennis · Colton v. United States · State v. Trull · Bryant v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance · Hicks v. Albertson
Most-quoted passages
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“It is well established that the substance of communications between attorney and client is privileged under proper circumstances. Not all facts pertaining to the lawyer-client relationship are privileged, however. The authorities are clear that the privilege extends essentially only to the substance of matters communicated to an attorney in professional confidence. Thus the identity of a client or the fact that a given individual has become a client are matters which an attorney normally may not refuse to disclose, even though the fact of having retained counsel may be used as evidence against the client. We are of the opinion that the fact that an attorney did communicate with his client in a certain manner on a certain date is likewise not normally privileged information. It is the substance of the attorney-client communication which is protected, however, not the fact that there have been communications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The obvious purpose of this statute is to provide relief for a person who has sustained injury or property damage in an amount so small that, if he must pay his attorney out of his recovery, he may well conclude that it is not economically feasible to bring suit on his claim. In such a situation the Legislature apparently concluded that the defendant, though at fault, would have an unjustly superior bargaining power in settlement negotiations .... This statute, being remedial, should be construed liberally to accomplish the purpose of the Legislature and to bring within it all cases fairly falling within its intended scope.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Injured party as witness when medical charges at issue — Whenever an issue of hospital, medical, dental, pharmaceutical, or funeral charges arises in any civil proceeding, the injured party or his guardian ... is competent to give evidence regarding the amount of such charges, provided that records or copies of such charges accompany such testimony. The testimony of such a person establishes a rebuttable presumption of the reasonableness of the amount of the charges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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