Brandvain v. Ridgeview Institute, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding a duty to the extent possible under reasonable medical practice to prevent suicide of a hospitalized patient
• “[A] patient may be so mentally ill that, as a matter of law, he is not held to exercise any degree of care for himself, and, therefore, cannot be contributorily negligent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).