Chrysler Corp. v. Ford Motor Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that Michigan had most significant interest when “[t]he only factor pointing elsewhere is the fact that [the corporation] was incorporated in Pennsylvania”
• concluding that Michigan had most significant interest when “[t]he only factor pointing elsewhere is the fact that [the corporation] was incorporated in Pennsylvania”
• Restatement does not mandate using law of state of incorporation -19- if another state “has a far more significant relationship to the events in question than does the state of incorporation”
• “[I]n matters external to the corporation, more general choice of law rules apply.”
• “[I]n matters external to the corporation, more general choice of law rules apply.”
• “[T]heories based on contractual or quasi-contractual assumption of liability would seem to invoke the provisions of § 188, which specifies factors to be considered in contract actions in the absence of effective choice of law by the parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).