Coffey v. Dowley Manufacturing, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that, under Tennessee law, only the prudent- manufacturer test applied where the victim alleged that a complex automotive tool was unreasonably dangerous
• Tennessee courts have generally required expert testimony in cases involving both complex products and complex failures of simple products
• “I was not aware. Anything that I’ve ever assembled, even a little toy helicopter, the battery is always the last step you put in.”
• “[Although Jackson stands for the proposition that the consumer expectation test is theoretically applicable to all situations, even that Court acknowledged that ordinary consumers would have no expectations regarding certain products and certain failures.”
• “While an expert witness is necessary under the prudent manufacturer test, the consumer expectation test, by definition, relies on the expectations of ordinary consumers, not experts.”
• “[A]lthough Jackson stands for the proposition that the consumer expectation test is theoretically applicable to all situations, even that Court acknowledged that ordinary consumers would have no expectations regarding certain products and certain failures.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).