457 F. Supp. 322 - Williams v. Bashman’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Christy v. Saliterman · Bacsick v. Barnes · 174 Pa. Super. 498 - Stais v. Sears-Roebuck and Co. · Stais v. Sears-Roebuck & Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“The orthodox view, and indeed virtually the universal one, is that when a plaintiff alleges that the defendant lawyer negligently provided services to him or her as a plaintiff in the underlying action, he or she must establish by a preponderance of the evidence that he or she would have recovered a judgment in the underlying action in order to be awarded damages in the malpractice action, which are measured by the lost judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferencz v. Milie
How this case has been treated — in progress
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