Cobbs v. Grant

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a battery cause of action is only proper where a surgeon performs a surgery to which the patient has not consented
• noting that `medical battery cases' are limited to substantial and obvious deviations from the anticipated procedure or treatment
• stating that a physician need not inform a patient of risks “if the procedure is simple and the danger remote and commonly appreciated to be remote”
• determining that the doctor's \equivocal admission\ that he \blamed himself\ was not a concession that his conduct fell below the standard of care, and it therefore could not alone support a jury verdict of negligence
• adopting the majority position that \appears to be towards categorizing [the] failure to obtain informed consent as negligence\
• adopting the majority position that \appears to be towards categorizing [the] failure to obtain informed consent as negligence\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).