Sheffield v. Runner

How courts have described this case

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

• physician’s admission that he should have placed the plaintiff in a hospital presented sufficient evidence for jury to find that physician breached the standard of care
• “[w]hile expert testimony is required in a case of this sort to establish the standard of medical practice in the community, this evidence may be found in the testimony of the defendant physician, and his extrajudicial admissions have the same affect as direct expert testimony”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).