Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company, Cross-Appellant v. American Cyanamid Company, Cross-Appellee

How courts have described this case

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• noting \the use of dynamite and other explosives for demolition in residential or urban areas\ constitutes the \largest class 10 of cases\ recognized to involve an abnormally dangerous activity
• “[T]rials are to determine facts, not law. More precisely—for there is no sharp line between ‘law’ and ‘fact’—trials are to determine adjudicative facts rather than legislative facts.”
• “We are not required to follow even the holdings of intermediate state appellate courts if persuaded that they are not rehable predictors of the view the state’s highest court would take.” (citations omitted)
• “[n]o court is required to follow another court’s dicta”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).