Whitehouse v. Deramus

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence of other incidents or experiments was admissible if the conditions were “substantially similar.”
• noting that plaintiffs present prior accidents “to demonstrate notice, the existence of a defect, or to refute testimony given by defense witnesses”
• noting that, while the contents of the multicooker burned the consumer, the “*LID STAYED ON*”
• “[I]f the evidence is offered to merely show physical principles, the experiment should be conducted without suggesting that it simulates actual events.”
• “Before introducing such evidence, the party seeking its admission must show the circumstances surrounding the other accidents were substantially similar to the accident involved in the present case.” (citation omitted)
• typically dissimilarities of experimental evidence goes to weight of evidence rather than admissibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).