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Nebraska Supreme Court· 4/21/2000

Rodriguez v. Nielsen

Citations

  • 609 N.W.2d 368
  • 259 Neb. 264
  • 2000 Neb. LEXIS 92

How courts have described this case

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

  • ‘‘[w]e therefore hold that a convicted criminal who files a legal malpractice claim against his or her defense counsel must allege and prove that he or she is innocent of the underlying crime’’
  • “We believe that it is the illegal conduct of a convicted criminal who files a malpractice claim, rather than any subsequent negligence of counsel, that is the cause in fact of any injuries flowing from the conviction.”
  • “We believe that it is the illegal conduct of a convicted criminal who files a malpractice claim, rather than any subsequent negligence of counsel, that is the cause in fact of any injuries flowing from the conviction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hendry, Wright, Connolly, Gerrard, Stephan, McCormack, Miller-Lerman

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33 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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Other cases named Rodriguez v. Nielsen

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