Watson v. Meltzer

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he underlying requirement in all negligence cases—not just legal malpractice cases—remains that a plaintiff must prove that, but for the defendant’s negligence, the plaintiff would not have suffered the harm that has been alleged.”
• “[T]he general requirement that a plaintiff [in a legal malpractice case] demonstrate that he or she would have obtained a more favorable result but for the negligence of the defendant has been referred to as a requirement of proving a ‘case within a case.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).