Melville v. Southward

How courts have described this case

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

• expert not qualified to testify where plaintiff did not establish an evidentiary foundation that expert orthopedic surgeon was \substantially familiar with the standard of care for podia-tric surgery\
• physician unfamiliar with the standard of care was unqualified to testify as an expert
• “Unless the subject matter of a medical malpractice action lies within the ambit of common knowledge or experience of ordinary persons, the plaintiff must establish the controlling standard of care, as well as the defendant’s failure to adhere to that standard, by expert opinion testimony.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Day v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2011-05-31· cited 661×
• Antolovich v. Brown Group Retail, Inc.
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2007-08-23· cited 624×
• People v. McFee
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2016-06-30· cited 551×
• Schuessler v. Wolter
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-05-24· cited 369×
• Redden v. SCI Colorado Funeral Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2002-01-14· cited 222×
• Hall v. Frankel
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2008-06-26· cited 189×
• Greenberg v. Perkins
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1993-02-01· cited 82×
• United Blood Services v. Quintana
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-04-13· cited 77×
• Cooley v. Big Horn Harvestore Systems, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1991-06-24· cited 51×
• Brooks v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1999-04-12· cited 48×
• Huntoon v. TCI Cablevision of Colorado, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1998-11-30· cited 47×
• Gorab v. Zook
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1997-06-30· cited 26×
• People v. Lanari
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1996-05-02· cited 24×
• Teiken v. Reynolds
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1995-09-28· cited 16×
• Freedman v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1992-10-08· cited 15×
• Deasy v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1996-10-28· cited 14×
• Svendsen v. Robinson
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2004-03-25· cited 10×
• Gallardo Ex Rel. Gallardo v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 2014-05-19· cited 10×
• Van Leeuwan v. Nuzzi
  D. Colorado· 1993-01-21· cited 9×
• Dotson v. Bernstein
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2009-03-05· cited 9×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Alexander v. Mt. Carmel Medical Center
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1978-12-06· cited 162×
• Perreira v. State
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-02-06· cited 99×
• Bloskas v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1982-06-28· cited 69×
• McGraw v. Kerr
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1912-09-15· cited 64×
• Botehlo v. Bycura
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1984-08-30· cited 48×
• Creasey v. Hogan
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1981-12-09· cited 34×
• Smith v. Curran
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1970-07-07· cited 27×
• Maercklein v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1954-02-15· cited 25×
• Mudd v. Dorr
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1977-09-15· cited 24×
• Connelly v. Kortz
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1984-09-06· cited 16×
• Marshall v. Yale Podiatry Group
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1985-08-20· cited 16×
• Caro v. Bumpus
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1971-10-13· cited 14×
• Klimkiewicz v. Karnick
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1962-06-11· cited 13×
• Butin v. Rothman
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1957-06-17· cited 7×