People v. Gulliford

How courts have described this case

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

• “in both the criminal law and in tort law the concept of foreseeability of the ensuing harm caused from the culpable act of a defendant plays a large role”
• “unskillful medical treatment,” short of gross or intentional malpractice, “is reasonably foreseeable”
• “Where a person inflicts upon another a dangerous wound which is calculated to endanger or destroy life, that person cannot exonerate himself from the consequences of his act by showing that his alleged victim’s death resulted from unskillful or improper medical treatment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).