Torres v. State

How courts have described this case

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• the plaintiff had not known of her husband’s death in a state hospital and had given no consent to an autopsy. The state was liable for an unauthorized autopsy performed by the state hospital because the hospital’s attempts to contact the plaintiff were not reasonable and sufficient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Weiley v. Albert Einstein Medical Center
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-24· cited 67×
• Clomon v. Monroe City School Bd.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1991-01-11· cited 54×
• Burgess v. Perdue
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1986-06-13· cited 54×
• Brown v. Matthews Mortuary, Inc.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1990-11-15· cited 47×
• Larsen v. Banner Health System
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2003-12-23· cited 22×
• Estate of Finn v. City of New York
  Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York· 1973-12-06· cited 15×
• Green v. Iacovangelo
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2020-06-12· cited 5×
• Kalina v. General Hospital of the City of Syracuse
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1962-12-06· cited 5×
• Schwartz v. State
  New York State Court of Claims· 1994-08-26· cited 3×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Lott v. State
  New York State Court of Claims· 1962-02-21· cited 27×