Golden Oil Co. v. Exxon Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming “with uneasiness” a diversity decision that would permit different states’ juries to apply different safety standards to nationally used car designs; rectifying the problem held to be Congress’ concern
• “Compliance with the safety standards promulgated pursuant to the National Traffic Motor Vehicle Safety Act, however, does not relieve Chrysler of liability in this action.”
• expressly rejecting the argument that compliance with all authorized safety standards precludes a common law product liability claim
• denial of motion affirmed “unless record is critically deficient of that minimum quantum of evidence from which a jury might reasonably afford relief”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).