784 So. 2d 578 - Gresham v. Strickland’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 463 So. 2d 1153 - Jones v. Utica Mut. Ins. Co. · 655 So. 2d 1164 - McDonald v. Florida Dept. of Transp. · Estate of Murphy · National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Ahmed · Hess v. Hess
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a party to recover for legal malpractice, three elements must be proven: (1) the attorney was employed by or in privity with the plaintiff(s); (2) the attorney neglected a reasonable duty to the client(s); and (3) the negligence proximately caused any loss to the plaintiff(s).”
2 later decisions 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.