Chappuis v. Sears Roebuck & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding retailer responsible as a manufacturer because the retailer “held the product out to the public as its own”
• duty to warn “when the danger is known to the manufacturer and cannot justifiably be expected to be within the knowledge of users generally”
• “But when the danger is known to the manufacturer and cannot justifiably be expected to be within the knowledge of users generally, the manufacturer must take reasonable steps to warn the user.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

144 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Suter v. San Angelo Foundry & MacHine Company
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1979-07-31· cited 358×
• Halphen v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1986-02-24· cited 230×
• Cates v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-04-01· cited 210×
• Bell v. Jet Wheel Blast, Div. of Ervin Industries
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1985-01-14· cited 183×
• Bloxom v. Bloxom
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1987-09-09· cited 167×
• Hunt v. City Stores, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1980-06-23· cited 160×
• Philippe v. Browning Arms Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1981-03-02· cited 127×
• Porter v. American Optical Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-04-08· cited 111×
• DeBattista v. Argonaut-Southwest Ins. Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1981-09-17· cited 106×
• Wagoner v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
  E.D. Louisiana· 2011-08-24· cited 105×
• Dorry v. LaFleur
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1981-05-18· cited 97×
• Young v. Ford Motor Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1992-03-02· cited 91×
• Kelley v. Price-Macemon, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-06-11· cited 87×
• Hebert v. Brazzel
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1981-09-08· cited 63×
• Simeon v. Doe
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1993-05-24· cited 62×
• Winterrowd v. Travelers Indem. Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1985-01-24· cited 59×
• LaFleur v. John Deere Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1986-06-23· cited 56×
• Hines v. Remington Arms Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1994-12-08· cited 54×
• Holmes v. State Through Dept. of Highways
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1985-03-06· cited 51×
• Rowell v. Carter Mobile Homes, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1987-01-12· cited 48×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gonzales v. Xerox Corp.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1975-10-01· cited 616×
• Weber v. Fidelity & Casualty Insurance Co. of NY
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1971-06-28· cited 333×
• Langlois v. Allied Chemical Corporation
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1971-06-07· cited 282×
• Temple v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1976-02-23· cited 112×
• Penn v. Inferno Manufacturing Corporation
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1967-04-17· cited 72×
• Spillers v. Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1973-11-09· cited 15×
• Hester and Nicholas M. Ross, Jr. v. John's Bargain Stores Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-09-12· cited 9×
• Chappuis v. Sears Roebuck & Co.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1977-07-11· cited 4×

Other cases named Chappuis v. Sears Roebuck & Co.

4 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Chappuis v. Sears Roebuck & Co.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1977-07-11· cited 4×
• Chappuis v. Sears Roebuck & Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1977-11-11
• Chappuis v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1979-01-19
• Chappuis v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1979-01-19