Davis v. Watkins

How courts have described this case

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

• setting out “minimal constitutional standards for adequate treatment for patients committed to Lima State Hospital”, many of which standards are not met at the Bronx
• “the State, upon committing an individual ‘until he regains his sanity,’ incurs a responsibility to provide such care as is reasonably calculated to achieve that goal.”
• majority of patients were criminally committed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).