| Sumario: | The article refers to the court case Robinson v. Mandell to describe the concept of the accident. Topics include while Hetty Robinson was clearly not the first individual who dared to forge a signature for financial gain, Robinson v. Mandell marked one of the first instances when a subject's authenticity was fully reconsidered, and thus redefined, on the grounds of statistics, and the case People v. Collins, which offers an example of accident-as-deviation on two fronts and the once-binary nature of either a signature's truth or its falseness was translated into the statistical scale of probable or improbable, a quantitative continuum where the threshold of a persuasive probability became the ultimate demarcator of epistemic, and eventually subjective, identity.
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