Does the hearsay exception for "learned treatises" -- the hearsay exception for a statement in authoritative and reliable treatises, periodicals, or similar literature -- require that a testifying expert have relied on the statement in the literature or that a testifying expert's attention have been called to the statement in the literature?

Contributed in 2010 & last edited in 2010 by Peter Tillers
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