Jodoin v. Toyota Motor Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that testing performed by expert witness on vehicle facially similar to vehicle involved in rollover accident was reconstructive evidence requiring the proponent of the testing evidence to demonstrate substantial similarity
• noting that the “substantial similarity” standard is not akin to “virtually identical”
• find that evidence 24 representing a re-creation of an incident was only required to be “substantially similar” to the 25 original incident and the trial judge erred by excluding the evidence after finding that it was not 26 “virtually identical” to the actual incident
• “ ‘Virtually identical’ is an incorrect standard.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).