472 So. 2d 573 - Argus v. Scheppegrell’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 276 So. 2d 286 - Smolinski v. Taulli · Baumgartner v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. · 360 So. 2d 1164 - Boyer v. Johnson · 357 So. 2d 1350 - Outlaw v. Bituminous Ins. Co. · 471 So. 2d 709 - Turner v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“We hold that because of the disparity of positions in the relationship between a trained and licensed physician and a nineteen-year old uneducated patient whose drug addiction was known to the physician, and because of the vastly different duty required of each party under the circumstances, the patients reasonably expected conduct did not constitute an absolute bar to her parents' recovery for her wrongful death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... the record plainly established that the amount and combination of drugs prescribed by Dr. Scheppegrell alone could have caused addiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... the legislative adoption of comparative fault after the incident ... may require a reexamination of this reasoning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.