Harrigfeld’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
April 2004
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Sun Valley Potatoes, Inc. v. Rosholt, Robertson & Tucker · Jordan v. Beeks · Johnson v. Jones · Lamb v. Manweiler · Marias v. Marano
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A direct attorney-client relationship is required to exist between the plaintiff and the attorney-defendant in a legal malpractice action except in this very narrow circumstance. An attorney preparing testamentary instruments owes a duty to the beneficiaries named or identified therein to prepare such instruments, and if requested by the testator to have them properly executed, so as to effectuate the testator’s intent as expressed in the testamentary instruments. If, as a proximate result of the attorney’s professional negligence, the testator’s intent as expressed in the testamentary instruments is frustrated in whole or in part and the beneficiary’s interest in the estate is either lost, diminished, or unrealized, the attorney would be liable to the beneficiary harmed even though the attorney did not have a direct attorney-client relationship with that beneficiary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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