Res ipsa loquitor in United States

Res ipsa loquitor 

Literally ”the thing speaks for itself”.
A fact pattern which being so obvious facially as having resulted from negligence that the court infers negligence from the very facts. This can also be seen as a form of reductio ad absurdam. Legally speaking the rebuttable presumption that where the instrumentality in the defendants posession is implicated in the destructive injury that would not ordinarily happen without negligence the defendant will be presumed to have been negligent according to this principle.

Hillen v. Holker Const. Co., Tex.Civ.App., 4M S.W.2d
113, 115.