Sparkman v. American Residential Services, LLC

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting reliability challenge to expert opinion based in part on an allegedly defective study where study did “not play a major role” in expert’s opinion
• “[A] hypothesis may satisfy Daubert even if it is untested so long as the expert provides sufficient alternative indicia of reliability.”
• “The Sixth Circuit has concluded that ‘substantial similarity’ exists in incidents involving the same model, the same design, the same defect, and occurring under similar circumstances.” (citation omitted)
• “[W]here an expert employs differential diagnosis to ‘rule out other potential causes for the injury at issue, he must also rule in the suspected cause, and do so using scientifically valid methodology’”
• “Expertise in the technology of fruit is not sufficient when analyzing the science of apples, and courts have excluded the testimony of engineers because their expertise was not particular to the science involved in the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).