40 Or. App. 511 - Calvert v. Ourum’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[t]he rescue doctrine does not alter the standard of care. It remains the same. The rescue doctrine operates like the emergency doctrine in that it simply applies the reasonable and prudent person standard to a particular set of circumstances. (Citation omitted). The question is whether a reasonably prudent person would have acted similarly as the plaintiff did under the same or similar circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Padilla v. Hooks International, Inc.

2. “It is not contributory negligence for a plaintiff to expose himself to danger in an effort to save * * * a third person * * from harm, unless the effort itself is an unreasonable one, or the plaintiff acts unreasonably in the course of it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Padilla v. Hooks International, Inc.