Parham v. Albert’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 2005
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Town of West Point v. Evans · Sneed v. Sneed · Page v. Arnold · Lawrence v. Snyder · McManama v. Wilhelm
Most-quoted passages
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“Axiomatic are the following principles. Negligence cannot be presumed from the mere happening of an accident. The burden is on the plaintiff to produce evidence of preponderating weight from which the trier of fact can find that the defendant was guilty of negligence which was a proximate cause of the accident. The evidence must prove more than a probability of negligence. The plaintiff must show why and how the accident happened. And if the cause of the accident is left to conjecture, guess, or random judgment, the plaintiff cannot recover.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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