Hemenway v. Cutler

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding no evidence that Goss’s involuntarily hospitalization by defendant probably would have prevented her 17 suicide
• permitting action against psychiatrist for failure to prevent suicide where “suicide probably would not have occurred if the decedent had been hospitalized.”
• noting that foreseeability is one component of proximate causation
• providing that for a negligent act or omission to have been a cause-in-fact of the harm, the act or omission must have been a substantial factor in bringing about the harm, and absent the act or omission—i.e., but 19 for the act or omission—the harm would not have occurred
• “Proximate cause has two components: (1) foreseeability and (2) cause-in-fact.”
• “For a negligent act or omission to have been a cause-in-fact of the harm, the act or omission must have been a substantial factor in bringing about the harm, and absent the act or omission—i.e., but for the act or omission—the harm would not have occurred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).