Whiting v. Boston Edison Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that differential diagnosis cannot be used to explain plaintiff’s disease where 90% of cases of disease are of unknown origin
• “Just as a lawyer is not by general education and experience qualified to give an expert opinion on every subject of the law, so too a scientist or medical doctor is not presumed to have expert knowledge about every conceivable scientific principle or disease”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).