435 So. 2d 1237 - Mylar v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Krahn v. Kinney (1989), Bailey v. Tucker (1993)
34 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Washington v. Strickland · Mylar v. State Alabama · 374 So. 2d 267 - Herston v. Whitesell · 553 F. Supp. 485 - Newman v. Silver · 343 So. 2d 801 - Miles v. State
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A lawyer owes certain duties of care in the relationship with his or her client; and, in the performance of legal services for the client, a lawyer is required to exercise an ordinary and reasonable level of skill, knowledge, care, attention, and prudence common to members of the legal profession in the community." (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“apart from the lawyer's negligence, he [the plaintiff] would have obtained a more favorable result in his criminal prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must allege and prove that the actionable wrong proximately caused the damage for which recompense is sought.”
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.