Purtill v. Hess

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the standard of care against which a defendant’s conduct is measured is “that degree of knowledge, skill, and care which a reasonably well-qualified physician in the same or similar community would bring to a similar case under similar circumstances”
• in which the supreme court recognized that “there are today relatively uniform standards for the education and licensing of physicians”
• \It must be established that the expert is a licensed member of the school of medicine about which he proposes to express an opinion\
• “It must be established that the expert is a licensed member of the school of medicine about which he proposes to express an opinion”
• summary judgment should be allowed “when the right of the moving party is clear and free from doubt”
• in motion for summary judgment, moving party has initial burden of supplying facts which, if not contradicted, would entitle such party to a judgment as a matter of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).