640 So. 2d 143 - Brennan v. Ruffner’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2015
1 federal appellate · 16 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 231 Cal. App. 3d 692 - Skarbrevik v. Cohen, England & Whitfield · 567 So. 2d 430 - The Florida Bar v. Shuminer · 107 Mich. App. 509 - Fassihi v. Sommers, Schwartz, Silver, Schwartz & Tyler, PC · 512 So. 2d 192 - Angel, Cohen & Rogovin v. Oberon Inv., NV · 612 So. 2d 1378 - Espinosa v. Sparber, Shevin, Shapo, Rosen and Heilbronner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n attorney who represents a corporation is `not in privity with and therefore owes no separate duty of diligence and care to an individual shareholder absent special circumstances or an agreement to also represent the shareholder individually.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a legal malpractice action, a plaintiff must prove three elements: the attorney's employment, the attorney's neglect of a reasonable duty and that such negligence resulted in and was the proximate cause of loss to the plaintiff.”
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.