Wal-Mart Stores v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “[The testimony of the plaintiff may be sufficient, without the use of experts to establish the element of causation between an accident and the plaintiff's injuries.... The jury may reasonably infer that an absence of pain prior to the accident, and the onset of pain afterwards, is evidence that the accident caused the pain.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Middlemass v. State Ex Rel. Wyoming Workers' Safety & Compensation Division

2. “In reviewing a sufficiency of-the-evidence question, we assume the evidence in favor of the successful party to be true, leaving out of consideration entirely the evidence in conflict, and assigning every favorable inference to the evidence of the successful party that can be reasonably and fairly drawn from it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wyoming Medical Center, Inc. v. Murray

3. “lf the plaintiff, bearing the risk of nonpersuasion, chooses to present his claim of past pain without medical experts and the fact finder decides to credit his claim, most appellate courts perceive no impediment to upholding the award.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wyoming Medical Center, Inc. v. Murray