641 So. 2d 1371 - Fernandes v. Barrs’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Desist v. United States · 576 So. 2d 281 - State v. Williams · Christy v. Saliterman · 15 Ill. App. 3d 455 - Kohler v. Woollen, Brown & Hawkins · 422 So. 2d 838 - Berek v. Metropolitan Dade County
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that the client/plaintiff in a legal malpractice action must prove both that a favorable result would have been achieved in the underlying litigation ... and that any judgment which could have been recovered would have been collectible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Klump v. Duffus“In an action for legal malpractice a plaintiff has the burden of showing the validity of the demand which he lost and that it could have been realized if the attorneys had not been negligent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Klump v. Duffus“prevents a windfall to the client by preventing him from recovering more from the attorney than he could have actually obtained from the tortfeasor in the underlying action”
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.