Mentzer & Rhey, Inc. v. Ferrari

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• no cause of action by former attorney against successor attorney because absent privity, successor attorney could not be held liable to anyone except the client
• in the absence of special circumstances, an attorney will be held liable for negligence only to his or her client

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pelagatti v. Cohen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-11-30· cited 155×
• Parler & Wobber v. Miles & Stockbridge, P.C.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-07-25· cited 71×
• Somers v. Gross
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-28· cited 17×
• Erickson v. Erickson
  S.D. West Virginia· 1994-04-14· cited 8×
• Grovatt v. Friedman
  Northampton County Court of Common Pleas· 1992-07-29
• Kirschner v. K&L Gates LLP
  Alleghany County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-12-28
• JMC Venture Partners, LLC v. Lee
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2006-08-31
• DS & BH Holdings II LLC v. Snyder
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 2015-02-05

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Guy v. Liederbach
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-29· cited 333×
• Builders Supply Co. v. McCabe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1951-01-02· cited 315×
• Smith v. Griffiths
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-19· cited 65×
• Sirianni v. Nugent Bros., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-19· cited 54×
• Svetz for Svetz v. Land Tool Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-24· cited 52×
• Schladensky v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-03-25· cited 34×
• American Metal Fabricators Co. v. Goldman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 31×
• Eckrich v. DiNardo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-12-05· cited 29×
• Free v. Lebowitz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 25×
• Worldwide Marine Trading Corp. v. Marine Transport Service, Inc.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1981-10-28· cited 12×
• Township of Upper Makefield v. Benjamin Franklin Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-11-02· cited 10×
• Jenkins v. American Dredging Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-01-02· cited 5×