Cottrell v. Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that medical malpractice actions generally require “expert opinion testimony of the standard of care in the community”
• acknowledging “nearly one hundred years of New York cases” requiring expert evidence in civil tort actions for medical malpractice
• “except as to matters within the ordinary experience and knowledge of laymen, ... expert medical opinion evidence is required” to make out both elements of malpractice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).