Dorrough v. Tarpy’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
January 2016
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Sodexho, Cumberland College Cafeteria · Gibson v. Trant · Cleckner v. Dale · Rose v. Welch · Hutter v. Cohen
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) that the accused owed a duty to the plaintiff, (2) that the attorney breached that duty, (3) that the plaintiff suffered damages, (4) that the breach was the' cause in fact of the plaintiffs damages, and (5) that the attorney’s negligence was the proximate, or legal, cause of the plaintiffs damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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