Diehl v. Butts

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to apply statute according to litigant’s preferred interpretation because the procedure it called for would be “illogical”
• refusing to apply statute according to litigant’s preferred interpretation because the procedure it called for would be “illogical”
• conversations between physician and patient can be relied on by experts only to the extent testimony of such conversations is not precluded by the dead man’s statute
• “[T]he jury instruction contains an erroneous and confusing statement of law because the instruction implies that the tort concepts of contributory negligence and mitigation of damages are identical concepts when, in fact, they are separate and distinct tort principles.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).