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501 So. 2d 27 - Ginsberg v. Chastain’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
December 1997
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 400 So. 2d 463 - Cohen v. Cohen · 318 So. 2d 540 - Freeman v. Rubin · 271 So. 2d 217 - Weiner v. Moreno · 500 So. 2d 228 - Schreidell v. Shoter · 467 So. 2d 315 - Lorraine v. Grover, Ciment, Weinstein & Stauber, PA

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a] cause of action for legal malpractice has three elements: (1) the attorney's employment; (2) the attorney's neglect of a reasonable duty; and (3) the attorney's negligence resulted in and was the proximate cause of loss to the client.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “conclusively shows an absence of facts or inferences from facts to support a jury verdict, viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the nonmoving party,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.