432 So. 2d 89 - Fitzpatrick v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
September 1988
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on English v. McCrary · Turner v. State · Babb v. Edwards · 384 So. 2d 1357 - Pantori, Inc. v. Stephenson · 345 So. 2d 837 - Roberts v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“To require the defendant to come forward with allegations or proof that the attorney has or will disclose such confidences necessarily requires disclosure of much of the privileged information. This would destroy the very confidentiality he seeks to protect. We think it is sufficient to show there were confidential communications and they related to matters now on trial. Whether the attorney would violate those confidences and reveal the substance of them to other members of the office is not a subject of inquiry. 432 So.2d at 90 . To the extent it would require inquiry into”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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