Gwynn v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• \A second state interest recognized by many courts to be sufficiently compelling to override a mentally ill patient's decision to refuse antipsychotic medication is the state's parens patriae power.\
• “[I]t is clear that mental illness and incompetence are not one and the same.”
• “Our belief in the principle that ‘[e]very human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body’ * * * is reflected in our decisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).