Miller v. Rhode Island Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• describing “unsound mind” as a form of legal incompetency characterized by “[t]he inability to ‘govern’ one’s self and manage one’s other affairs”
• \unsound mind\ in the context of legal incompetency defined as the inability to govern one's self and manage one's affairs
• \[e]qually as well established as the informed consent doctrine is the exception to it for emergencies\
• “physician must respect the refusal of treatment by a patient who is capable of providing consent, even in an emergency”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).