Perkins v. Hausladen

How courts have described this case

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• observing that negligence typically cannot be anecdotally inferred from the existence of adverse results
• explaining that when determining the “impossibil[ity] for the respondent to produce evidence” as recited in the summary judgment standard, “impossible” is used in a practical sense, not in an absolute sense
• explaining that when determining the “impossibil[ity] for the respondent to produce evidence” as recited in the summary judgment standard, “impossible” is used in a practical sense, not in an absolute sense
• noting that prior instances where use of the doctrine was permitted involved leaving a foreign object in a patient’s body during surgery or causing injury to a patient at a situs removed from where medical care was being provided
• noting that prior instances where use of the doctrine was permitted involved leaving a foreign object in a patient’s body during surgery or causing injury to a patient at a situs removed from where medical care was being provided
• “We accept that ‘impossible’ is used in a practical sense, not in an absolute sense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).