State v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “The general rule is that evidence of similar accidents or injuries at or near the same place is admissible if not too remote in point of time, provided a similarity exists between the circumstances surrounding the prior accident and the one before the court.... Evidence that would merely prove that many accidents had occurred at the [location] or that it was one of the most accident-prone [locations] in the city would be properly excludable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Braithwaite v. West Valley City Corp.