Boyd v. Chakraborty

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that affidavit of defendant physician in malpractice case which states that defendant did not breach appropriate standard of care presents prima facie case of lack of negligence for purposes of summary judgment
• holding that affidavit of defendant physician in malpractice case which states that defendant did not breach appropriate standard of care presents prima facie case of lack of negligence for purposes of summary judgment
• leaving foreign object, tube fragment, in patient’s body, understandable by jury without technical evidence as within realm of knowledge of laypersons
• applying common knowledge exception in medical malpractice context
• “[i]n sum, this case involves the leaving of a foreign object, namely, a tube fragment, in a patient’s body, which fragment should have been removed by an act understandable by the jury without technical evidence. . . . This is within the realm of knowledge of laypersons”
• “[i]n sum, this case involves the leaving of a foreign object, namely, a tube fragment, in a patient’s body, which fragment should have been removed by an act understandable by the jury without technical evidence. . . . This is within the realm of knowledge of laypersons”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).