Morningstar v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “a defective product may fall into three broad . . . categories: design defectiveness; structural defectiveness; and use defectiveness arising out of the lack of, or the inadequacy of, warnings, instructions and labels.”
• stating that “the legislature may alter or amend the common law[.]”
• stating that “the legislature may alter or amend the common law[.]”
• pronouncing legal standard for proving such claims in response to a certified question of law
• developing a product liability rule permitting recovery where a defective product causes personal injury
• discussing requirement of proximate cause in strict liability cause of action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).