430 Pa. Super. 551 - Hill v. Thorne’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2017
19 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 Bailey v. Tucker · Blackwell v. Com. State Ethics Com'n · Sharp v. Valley Forge Medical Center & Heart Hospital, Inc. · McCormick v. Northeastern Bank · 380 Pa. Super. 397 - Ibn-Sadiika v. Riester
Most-quoted passages
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“Consequently, today we hold that a plaintiff seeking to bring a trespass action against a criminal defense attorney, resulting from his or representation of the plaintiff in criminal proceedings, must establish the following elements: (1) The employment of the attorney; (2) Reckless or wanton disregard of the defendant’s interest on the part of the attorney; (3) the attorney’s culpable conduct was the proximate cause of an injury suffered by the defendant/plaintiff, i.e., “but for” the attorney’s conduct, the defendant/plaintiff would have obtained an acquittal or a complete dismissal of the charges. (4) As a result of the injury, the criminal defendant/plaintiff suffered damages. (5) Moreover, a plaintiff will not prevail in an action in criminal malpractice unless and until he has pursued post-trial remedies and obtained relief which was dependent on attorney error; additionally, although such a finding may be introduced into evidence in the subsequent action it shall not be dispositive of the establishment of culpable conduct in the malpractice action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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