State ex rel. Sockwell v. Court Reporter Section \C\, Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans

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• a party must show that they would have been successful in their case “but for the attorney’s negligence”
• “[A] party who has been denied his right to appeal due to an attorney’s failure to timely file a petition for review to the appropriate court must show that but for the attorney’s negligence, the appeal most probably would have been successful.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).