Is a view "evidence"?

Prudential Insurance Company of America v. Curt Bullock Builders, Inc., 626 F. Supp. 159, 165 (N.D. Ill. 1985) (holding, in plaintiff's diversity action against defendant, that evidence consisting of portions of the affidavits [which refer to conduct and statements at....Although settlement negotiations and offers are inadmissible (i) to show the validity or invalidity of a claim when validity is in dispute, (ii) to show the amount of damages when the amount is in dispute, or (iii) to impeach by showing a prior inconsistent statement or a specific contradiction, settlement evidence is commonly admitted in vicarious liability cases if (i) a settlement agreement between a defendant and a third person arises out of the same transaction that is the basis of the current claim against the defendant and (ii) the settlement agreement or evidence is offered to show agency, ownership or control.

Johnson v. Elk Lake School District, 283 F.3d 138, 152-155 (3d Cir. 2002) (civil action for sexual harassment and abuse; issue: admissibility under Federal Rule of Evidence 415 of another sexual offense; after extensive discussion court of appeals reluctantly concludes that the "sufficient to support a...The relevance of evidence of another crime, wrong, or act is conditional on the commission of such other crime, wrong, or act.

Fed. R. Evid. 803(6) ("Records of regularly conducted activity. A memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, in any form, of acts, events, conditions, opinions, or diagnoses, made at or near the time by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge, if kept in the course of a regularly conducted business activity, and...There is a hearsay exception for a memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, in any form, of acts, events, conditions, opinions, or diagnoses, made at or near the time by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge, if kept in the course of a regularly conducted activity of a business, institution, association, profession, occupation, or calling if it was the regular practice of that business, institution, association, profession, occupation, or calling to make the memorandum, report, record or data compilation, unless the source of information or the method or circumstances of preparation indicate lack of trustworthiness.