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· 3/7/2000

Cooper, Robert E. v. Nelson & Company

Citations

  • 211 F.3d 1008
  • 53 Fed. R. Serv. 684
  • 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 3430
  • 2000 WL 257140

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that \experts in various fields may rely properly on a wide variety of sources and may employ a similarly wide choice of methodologies in developing an expert opinion\
  • pointing out that the jury might disbelieve a doctor’s testimony when an opposing party “elicited testimony that [the doctor] had really done no investigation”
  • permitting of admission of medical expert testimony as to the cause of an injury based on subjective complaints
  • “[I]n clinical medicine, the methodology of physical examination and self-reported medical history employed by [the physician] is generally appropriate.”
  • “The proper method of attacking evidence that is admissible but subject to doubt is to cross-examine vigorously[.]”
  • “As a general proposition, a district court has the discretion to treat an allegation in a party’s pleading as a judicial admission.”

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Judges: Ripple, Manion, Wood

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