Advance Chemical Co. v. Harter

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “if the injury is reasonably foreseeable, even if rare, the seller cannot rely on its history of good fortune to exempt itself from liability.”
• “The distributor of a commodity inherently burdened with potential danger has the duty to take reasonable precautions to avoid reasonably foreseeable injuries to those who might use the commodity.”
• “[I]f the particular injury is reasonably foreseeable, however rare, the manufacturer or seller has the duty to warn.”
• “Although the Wait case speaks of the duty to warn in terms of an ‘inherently dangerous’ product, it is clear that the duty to warn arises when the product has dangerous propensities as well.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).