Purcell v. Zimbelman

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that because no one “can say with absolute certainty what would have occurred if the defendant had acted otherwise,” the question of causation is “peculiarly for the jury”
• hospital could be liable for independent contractor doctor’s negligence because “hospital had assumed the duty of supervising the competence of its staff doctors”
• other acts showing a misconception of the proper medical treatment are admissible in a medical malpractice case as tending to show similar misconception on the occasion in question
• causation requires “probable facts from which . . . causal relations may be reasonably inferred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).