To avoid the fallacy of accident, a court must consider whether the facts of the case sub judice can be distinguished from the situations that gave rise to the general rule. Courts regularly extend rules to encompass a wider variety of situations, thereby creating a more general rule. Such generalization is hasty only if the original rule was based on specifics not present in the case to which the rule is being extended.

Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide …, loc. 1112