Elite Professionals, Inc. v. Carrier Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a trucking company could recover in tort for meat that spoiled when a refrigeration unit it had bought from the defendant malfunctioned because the meat constituted “harm to property other than the refrigeration unit itself’
• noting that Kansas has adopted the doctrine of strict liability as set out in the Restatement (Second
• damage to meat inside refrigeration unit did not constitute economic loss, issue of fact as to whether truck refrigeration unit was unreasonably dangerous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Travelers Indem. Co. v. Dammann & Co., Inc.
  Third Circuit· 2010-02-05· cited 186×
• State v. Seward
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2009-10-02· cited 92×
• Terry Neustrom v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Defendant-Third-Party v. Asplundh Tree Expert Company, Third-Party
  Third Circuit· 1998-11-30· cited 78×
• Scott E. McIntosh and Steven R. McIntosh v. Scottsdale Insurance Company
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-04-22· cited 59×
• Zenda Grain & Supply Co. v. Farmland Industries, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1995-03-31· cited 34×
• Koss Construction v. Caterpillar, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1998-06-05· cited 26×
• Dennis Speerly v. General Motors, LLC
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-06-27· cited 25×
• Northwest Arkansas Masonry, Inc. v. Summit Specialty Products, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2001-09-14· cited 24×
• Dillard v. Shaughnessy, Fickel & Scott Architects, Inc.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1997-02-25· cited 20×
• Prendiville v. Contemporary Homes, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2004-02-13· cited 18×
• prod.liab.rep. (Cch) P 13,395 Dennis Winchester and John Winchester v. Lester's of Minnesota, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-01-12· cited 12×
• Champlain Enterprises, Inc. v. United States
  N.D. New York· 1996-11-20· cited 12×
• Sithon Maritime Co. v. Holiday Mansion
  D. Kansas· 1997-10-22· cited 9×
• Kestrel Holdings I, L.L.C. v. Learjet Inc.
  D. Kansas· 2004-02-24· cited 7×
• Corvias Military Living, LLC v. Ventamatic, Ltd.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2019-10-25· cited 6×
• McGraw-Edison Co. v. Northeastern Rural Electric Membership Corp.
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-04-22· cited 5×
• Badgett Construction & Development Co. v. Kan-Build, Inc.
  S.D. Iowa· 2000-03-03· cited 4×
• Crane Construction Co. v. Klaus Masonry
  D. Kansas· 1999-09-23· cited 1×
• Lim Enterprises v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  D. Kansas· 1996-01-19· cited 1×
• Neustrom v. Union Pacific
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-09-21

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Seckinger
  Supreme Court· 1970-03-09· cited 494×
• Vandermark v. Ford Motor Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1964-04-21· cited 384×
• Daitom, Inc. v. Pennwalt Corporation
  Tenth Circuit· 1984-08-17· cited 125×
• Mostyn v. Delaware, L. & WR Co.
  Second Circuit· 1947-05-09· cited 86×
• Delhomme Industries, Inc., Cross-Appellant v. Houston Beechcraft, Inc. And Beech Aircraft Corporation, Cross-Appellees
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-03-11· cited 83×
• Patterson v. Brouhard
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1990-05-25· cited 73×
• Brooks v. Dietz
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-01-24· cited 59×
• Williams v. Community Drive-In Theater, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1974-04-06· cited 59×
• Corral v. Rollins Protective Services Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1987-02-20· cited 48×
• Kansas City Structural Steel Co. v. L. G. Barcus & Sons, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1975-05-10· cited 35×
• Pearson v. Franklin Laboratories, Inc.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1977-05-26· cited 32×
• Whitaker v. Farmhand, Inc.
  Montana Supreme Court· 1977-08-02· cited 27×
• Kansas City Power & Light Company v. United Telephone Company of Kansas, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 1972-06-06· cited 26×
• Cason v. Geis Irrigation Co. of Kansas, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1973-03-03· cited 21×
• Busch v. City of Augusta
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1983-12-29· cited 21×
• Fordyce Concrete, Inc. v. MacK Trucks, Inc.
  D. Kansas· 1982-03-17· cited 19×
• Kansas Power & Light Co. v. Mobil Oil Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1967-04-08· cited 14×
• Mid-America Sprayers, Inc. v. United States Fire Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1983-03-17· cited 6×
• ERIE COUNTY WATER AUTH., ETC. v. Hen-Gar Const.
  W.D. New York· 1979-08-06· cited 1×