Mitchell v. Inhabitants of Bridgewater

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a person is dangerous to self if a mental disorder creates a nonspeculative risk of serious physical harm in the near future
• concluding that kick- ing a nurse while resisting restraint in the hospital and threatening to slit the throat of another nurse was not suffi- cient to infer that the appellant was a danger to others out- side the hospital setting
• reversing mental commitment where there was no evidence that the appellant would be a danger to herself or others outside of a hospital setting
• applying that standard in the commitment context
• applying that standard in the commitment context
• con- cluding that evidence of a single violent act resisting restraint in the hospital was not sufficient to infer she was dangerous to others outside the hospital setting

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).