McConnell v. Caterpillar Tractor Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that East River applied only to negligence in the manufacturing process and not to post-sale duties
• “A duty to warn of a product’s defects of which the seller becomes aware goes not to the quality of the product that the buyer expects from the bargain, but to the type of conduct which tort law governs as a matter of social and public policy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).