Butterfield v. Okubo

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that when Utah Supreme Court exercises its certiorari jurisdiction, it “review[s] [the] decision of the court of appeals, not of the trial court”
• explaining that an expert affidavit must contain \specific evidentiary facts\ supporting the expert's opinions and cannot \merely reflect[ ] the affiant's conclusions\
• “To recover for medical malpractice, the plaintiff must produce expert testimony that the medical professional’s negligence proximately caused the plaintiff injury.”
• \The position that an expert's opinion that lacks any credible support creates an issue of fact is clearly untenable.\ (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• requiring an affidavit to be supported with \specific evidentiary facts\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).