Hataway v. McKinley

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that courts apply the “law of the state where the injury occurred . . . 24 unless, with respect to a particular issue, some other state has a more significant 25 relationship to the occurrence and the parties . . . .”
• adopting the “most significant relationship” test of §§ 6, 145, 146, and 175 of the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws
• explaining Tennessee’s approach to determining which state’s substantive law governs a suit involving nonresidents
• “The Restatement provides that the law of the state where the injury occurred will be applied unless some other state has a more significant relationship to the litigation.”
• Restatement is easier to apply than other approaches in difficult cases because it provides default mechanism that allows courts to apply law of place where injury occurred in situations when no state has overriding interest in litigation
• discussing Tennessee’s choice of law rules

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).