Nason v. Superintendent of Bridgewater State Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• “appropriate treatment is to be determined by competent doctors in their best judgment within the limits of permissible medical practice ... ”
• court’s determination of appropriate treatment must be guided by the opinions of “competent doctors in their best judgment....”
• “It is beyond question that a person committed to a state hospital for the mentally affected has a right to receive treatment in an effort to cure or improve his or her condition.”
• lack of treatment for those incompetent to stand trial cognizable in habeas proceedings
• lack of treatment for those incompetent to stand trial cognizable in habeas proceedings
• treatment of confined mentally ill persons

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).