Colby v. Schwartz

How courts have described this case

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

• good Samaritan law does not excuse physician rendering emergency care in the ordinary course of practice
• “ ‘At common law, a physician could with legal impunity refuse to aid a stranger in need of immediate medical care. But a physician who stopped and gave aid created a doctor-patient relationship and thereby assumed the duty of reasonable care toward the patient’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).