Fishman v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 34 district · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Wagenmann v. Adams (1987), 119 Wash. 2d 251 - Hizey v. Carpenter (1992)
17 federal appellate · 34 district · 135 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · United States v. Bailey · 122 Wis. 2d 94 - Helmbrecht v. St. Paul Insurance · Beecy v. Pucciarelli · Cimino v. Milford Keg, Inc.
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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n attorney who [commits malpractice] is liable to his client for any reasonably foreseeable loss caused by his negligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“must prove that he probably would have obtained a better result had the attorney exercised adequate skill and care.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“negligen[t] in the settlement of [the client's] claim and, second, if that were established, ... whether, if the claim had not been settled, [the client] would probably have recovered more than he received in the settlement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.