Hoffman v. Howmedica, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• where language of statute is unambiguous, “legislative history is not ordinarily a proper source of construction”
• products liability involves the liability of sellers of goods to third persons with whom they are not in privity of contract
• “salient principle of statutory construction . . . [is] that the statutory language itself is the principal source of insight into the legislative purpose”
• statutory language principal source of insight into legislative purpose

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).