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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 32 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Seaman v. Seacor Marine L.L.C..

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1 Seaman v. Seacor Marine L.L.C. Anchor
ca5 · 2009
green “a plaintiff in such a case cannot expect lay fact-finders to understand medical causation; expert testimony is thus required to establish causation.” 20
2 Louis E. Wright etc. v. Willamette Ind.
ca8 · 1996
green “while courts 'do not require a mathematically precise table equating levels of exposure with levels of harm . . . there must be evidence from which a reasonable person could conclude that a defendant's emission has probably caused a particular plaintiff the kind of harm of which…” 12

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