365 So. 2d 461 - Drawdy v. Sapp’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2005
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Maryland Casualty Co. v. Price · 340 So. 2d 1167 - McAbee v. Edwards · 271 So. 2d 217 - Weiner v. Moreno · 349 So. 2d 230 - Adams v. Chenowith
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We affirm. Generally in a suit against an attorney for negligence the plaintiff must prove 1. the attorney’s employment, 2. his neglect of a reasonable duty, and 3. that such negligence resulted in and was the proximate cause of loss to the client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.