55 Md. App. 312 - Fishow v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 93 Md. App. 337 - Homa v. Friendly Mobile Manor, Inc. (1992), 133 Md. App. 442 - Berringer v. Steele (2000)
6 district · 21 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 Central Cab Co. v. Clarke · Niosi v. Aiello · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Price · Watson v. Calvert Building & Loan Ass'n · 328 So. 2d 698 - Muse v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree that legal malpractice may give rise to an action for breach of contract in cases involving employment of an attorney to perform a specific service in accordance with clearly stated instructions from the client-employer. The present case, however, does not fall within that class of cases, and the court below properly so ruled.”
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.