Bishop v. Florida Specialty Paint Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the “relationship of South Carolina to the personal injury action is limited to the happenstance of the plane coming into contact with South Carolina soil after developing engine trouble in unidentified airspace”
• adopting the \significant relationships test\ as set forth in the 1971 version of the Restatement sections 145 and 146
• adopting the significant relationships test to determine which forum’s law applies in a tort action brought in Florida
• pointing to other factors to consider in a choice of law analysis including “the relative interests of those states in the determination of the particular issue.”
• pending at the time the district court of appeal certified its question
• acknowledging situs of plane crash was sole contact with the state where injury occurred

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).