Bruni v. Tatsumi

How courts have described this case

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

• the plaintiff must have evidence that the defendant was unskillful or negligent and his want of skill or care caused injury to the plaintiff
• expert must be qualified to express an opinion concerning the specific standard of care that prevails in the medical community in which the alleged malpractice took place
• “The issue as to whether the physician and surgeon has proceeded in the treatment of a patient with the requisite standard of care and skill must ordinarily be determined from the testimony of medical experts”
• medical malpractice requires a plaintiff to establish (1) the applicable standard of care within the medical community, (2) the defendant breached that standard of care, and (3) the breach of the standard of care proximately caused the plaintiff’s injury
• the injury was proximately caused by the doing of some particular thing that a physician of ordinary skill, care and diligence would not have done under similar conditions or by the failure to do some particular thing that such a physician would have done under similar conditions
• the specialist standard prevailing in the medical community

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lucas Burgess v. Gene Fischer
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-11-01· cited 1,118×
• O'Brien v. Angley
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1980-07-16· cited 347×
• Ramage v. Central Ohio Emergency Services, Inc.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1992-06-24· cited 298×
• Ardoin v. Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1978-06-19· cited 232×
• Walski v. Tiesenga
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1978-09-19· cited 218×
• Seley v. G. D. Searle & Co.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1981-07-15· cited 209×
• Littleton v. Good Samaritan Hospital & Health Center
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1988-10-12· cited 176×
• Hall v. Hilbun
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-02-27· cited 167×
• Alexander v. Mt. Carmel Medical Center
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1978-12-06· cited 162×
• Morrison v. MacNamara
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1979-10-02· cited 160×
• Berdyck v. Shinde
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1993-06-30· cited 158×
• Nickell v. Gonzalez
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1985-05-22· cited 154×
• Cromer v. Children's Hosp. Med. Ctr. of Akron (Slip Opinion)
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2015-01-27· cited 135×
• Hoffman v. Davidson
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1987-06-10· cited 65×
• White v. Leimbach
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2011-12-08· cited 62×
• Vaught v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2003-05-07· cited 53×
• Stanley v. Ohio State Univ. Med. Ctr.
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2013-11-21· cited 44×
• Estate of Hall v. Akron General Medical Center
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2010-03-24· cited 42×
• Lundeen v. Graff
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2015-10-27· cited 41×
• Jordan v. Bogner
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1993-01-11· cited 36×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jerry W. Canterbury v. William Thornton Spence and the Washington Hospital Center, a Body Corporate
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-07-20· cited 455×
• Ewing v. Goode
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Ohio· 1897-01-15· cited 233×
• Wilson v. Scott
  Texas Supreme Court· 1967-02-01· cited 132×
• Aiken Ex Rel. Aiken v. Clary
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1965-12-13· cited 86×
• Small v. Howard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1880-01-19· cited 62×
• Davis v. Virginian Railway Co.
  Supreme Court· 1960-01-25· cited 56×
• Wood v. Vroman
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1921-10-03· cited 34×
• Morgan v. Sheppard
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 1963-03-07· cited 15×
• Pollack v. Dussourd
  Sixth Circuit· 1947-01-20· cited 2×