Harris v. Cropmate Company

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to apply the waiver doctrine even though the defendant failed to request a Frye hearing in the trial court
• declining to apply the waiver doctrine even though the defendant failed to request a Frye hearing in the trial court
• discussing causation testimony that did not calculate the concentration of exposure, but instead reached the conclusion that exposure occurred based upon their “generalised knowledge *** and firsthand experience with and observations of the effects of exposure”
• discussing causation testimony that did not calculate the concentration of exposure, but instead reached the conclusion that exposure occurred based upon their “generalized knowledge *** and firsthand experience with and observations of the effects of exposure”
• “If the scientific evidence is not ‘novel,’ then the Frye admissibility standard has been satisfied ***”
• if one’s conclusion is based on experience and observations, combined with a deductive process familiar to the average trier of fact, it is generally not scientific

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).