Clayton v. Kelly

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that, if a doctor responds to an emergency because his employment requires him to do so, then he does not need a special inducement to offer aid
• “[Cjlearly the occurrence of an ‘emergency’ will not invoke the immunity, if it was the doctor’s duty to respond to the emergency.”
• because purpose of good Samaritan statute is to induce voluntary rescue by removing fear of potential liability, statute is directed at persons who are not under some pre-existing duty to rescue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).