Topic: evidence concerning specific causation in toxic tort cases … · Go Syfert
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5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 98 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 Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Havner.

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1 Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Havner Anchor
tex · 1997
green “evidence concerning specific causation in toxic tort cases is admissible only as a follow-up to admissible general-causation evidence.” 49
2 United States v. Fullwood
ca5 · 2003
green “to be admissible under rule 702, the court must find that the evidence is both relevant and reliable.” 25
3 Wright v. Willamette Industries, Inc.
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…” 11
4 John Brown v. Natl Railroad Passenger Corp.
ca5 · 2013
green “employs in the courtroom the same level of intellectual rigor that characterizes the practice of an expert in the relevant field.” 8
5 Well v. Moran Bros.
wash · 1909
neutral “whether the estimated dose was sufficient to explain observed clinical effects known to be associated with the agent in question” 5

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