Hatcher v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2011
11 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 62 So. 2d 732 - Williams v. City of Lake City · 306 So. 2d 194 - Connell v. Sledge · 102 So. 2d 307 - Crovella v. Cochrane · Farrey v. Bettendorf · 71 So. 2d 251 - Johnson v. Studstill
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A legal malpractice cause of action has three elements: (1) the attorney's employment and (2) his neglect of a reasonable duty, which (3) is the proximate cause of loss to his client.”
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.