McCormack v. Hankscraft Company

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting requirement of privity in claims for personal injury based on breach of express warranty as it serves to eliminate bars to consumer recovery imposed by the law of sales
• plaintiff presented evidence that the cover of a vaporizer should have been secured such that it would prevent water in the vaporizer’s jar from simultaneously discharging if the vaporizer should tip over
• plaintiff presented evidence that the cover of a vaporizer should have been secured such that it would prevent water in the vaporizer's jar from simultaneously discharging if the vaporizer should tip over
• in which we adopted Restatement, Torts 2d, § 402A
• privity of contract not necessary for a products liability claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

99 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Phipps v. General Motors Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-09-29· cited 219×
• Hauter v. Zogarts
  California Supreme Court· 1975-04-28· cited 207×
• Durfee v. Rod Baxter Imports, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-11-10· cited 139×
• Hapka v. Paquin Farms
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1990-08-03· cited 105×
• John A. Karjala v. Johns-Manville Products Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 1975-09-24· cited 103×
• Busch v. Busch Construction, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-12-09· cited 101×
• Superwood Corp. v. Siempelkamp Corp.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-10-02· cited 100×
• Germann v. F.L. Smithe MacHine Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1986-11-14· cited 94×
• Hudson v. Snyder Body, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-08-31· cited 94×
• Farr v. Armstrong Rubber Company
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1970-07-24· cited 94×
• Conover v. Northern States Power Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-12-17· cited 93×
• Thill v. Modern Erecting Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1969-09-19· cited 88×
• Holm v. Sponco Mfg., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-08-31· cited 69×
• Clary v. Fifth Avenue Chrysler Center, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-05-05· cited 66×
• John M. Hoppe v. Midwest Conveyor Company, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1973-10-16· cited 59×
• Lee v. Crookston Coca-Cola Bottling Company
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1971-06-04· cited 59×
• Kallio v. Ford Motor Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1987-06-05· cited 56×
• Hill v. Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-05-06· cited 52×
• Lloyd F. Smith Co. v. Den-Tal-Ez, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-10-23· cited 51×
• Magrine v. SPECTOR
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1968-04-02· cited 49×

Cites

35 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 1963-01-24· cited 1,019×
• Webb v. Zern
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-06-24· cited 513×
• Lindroth v. Walgreen Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1950-09-21· cited 235×
• Piercefield v. Remington Arms Co.
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 212×
• State Stove Manufacturing Company v. Hodges
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1966-07-08· cited 165×
• Dealers Transport Co. v. Battery Distributing Co.
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1966-05-13· cited 128×
• Ford Motor Company v. Lonon
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1966-01-05· cited 100×
• Greeno v. Clark Equipment Company
  N.D. Indiana· 1965-01-15· cited 97×
• Beck v. Spindler
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1959-11-20· cited 91×
• Wights v. Staff Jennings, Inc.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1965-09-10· cited 83×
• Shoshone Coca-Cola Bottling Company v. Dolinski
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1966-12-07· cited 70×
• Lovejoy v. Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1956-12-07· cited 70×
• Garthwait v. Burgio
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1965-12-30· cited 62×
• Meche v. Farmers Drier & Storage Company
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1967-03-10· cited 58×
• Schubert v. J. R. Clark Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1892-04-21· cited 58×
• Hartmon v. National Heater Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1953-10-30· cited 48×
• Williams v. Ford Motor Company
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1966-12-20· cited 42×
• Ginsberg v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1965-03-26· cited 34×
• Miller v. Raaen
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1966-01-28· cited 26×
• Ericksen v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1963-10-04· cited 25×