153 N.C. App. 54 - Evans v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
May 2017
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on DeWitt v. Eveready Battery Co., Inc. · 105 N.C. App. 218 - Cobb v. Reitter
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) the malfunction of the product; (2) expert testimony as to a possible cause or causes; (3) how soon the malfunction occurred after the plaintiff first obtained the product and other relevant history of the product ...; (4) similar incidents, when accompanied by proof of substantially similar circumstances and reasonable proximity in time; (5) elimination of other possible causes of the accident; and (6) proof tending to establish that such an accident would not occur absent a manufacturing defect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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