O'BRIEN v. Comstock Foods, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Our inquiry is confined to those facts which are established by the record.”
• in tort action, place of final harm controls choice of law
• Vermont court could not exercise jurisdiction over nonresident manufacturer of can of beans in which plaintiff found piece of glass where defendant did not purposefully perform any act within Vermont; merely placing product into “stream of commerce” insufficient
• before new Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure enacted

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Cited by

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

• Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co. v. Barnes & Reinecke, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1965-05-27· cited 557×
• Eyerly Aircraft Co. v. Jack Killian, Individually and for and on Behalf of Jan Killian, a Minor
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-08-05· cited 98×
• Phillips v. Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1966-04-28· cited 97×
• Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd. v. Clarence A. Hollingsworth
  Ninth Circuit· 1969-12-08· cited 79×
• Elizabeth Taylor v. Portland Paramount Corporation
  Ninth Circuit· 1967-10-19· cited 63×
• Tilley v. Keller Truck & Implement Corp.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1968-03-09· cited 55×
• Albert J. Wasik v. Robert W. Borg, and Third-Party v. Ford Motor Company, Third-Party
  Second Circuit· 1970-03-10· cited 51×
• Banker v. Nighswander, Martin & Mitchell
  Second Circuit· 1994-10-11· cited 50×
• Crouch v. Crouch
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1982-11-09· cited 45×
• Sohn v. Bernstein
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1971-07-02· cited 30×
• Roland v. Modell's Shoppers World of Bergen Cty.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1966-07-18· cited 30×
• Daniel F. Braman v. Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and Hitchcock Clinic, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1980-09-02· cited 29×
• Sollinger v. Nasco International, Inc.
  D. Vermont· 1987-03-20· cited 24×
• O'BRIEN v. Comstock Foods, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1965-07-07· cited 23×
• Valdez v. Ford, Bacon & Davis, Texas, Inc.
  N.D. Indiana· 1974-03-07· cited 20×
• Turner v. Baxley
  D. Vermont· 1972-12-30· cited 19×
• Davis v. Saab-Scania of America, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1975-04-01· cited 17×
• Avery v. Bender
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1964-06-24· cited 15×
• Foye v. Consolidated Baling MacHine Company
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1967-05-09· cited 15×
• Miller v. Cousins Properties, Incorporated
  D. Vermont· 1974-03-22· cited 14×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• International Shoe Co. v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1945-12-03· cited 18,588×
• Hanson v. Denckla
  Supreme Court· 1958-10-13· cited 7,025×
• McGee v. International Life Insurance
  Supreme Court· 1957-12-16· cited 3,478×
• Gray v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1961-06-14· cited 596×
• Smyth v. Twin State Improvement Corp.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1951-05-01· cited 129×
• Bonnie Lee Jamieson Deveny, B.N.F. Frank Jamieson, and Frank Jamieson v. Rheem Manufacturing Company, Robertshaw Fulton Controls Company
  Second Circuit· 1963-06-06· cited 74×
• Hanley v. United Steel Workers of America
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1956-05-01· cited 24×
• Hurley v. Wells-Newton Nat. Corporation
  D. Connecticut· 1931-04-01· cited 10×
• Boright v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1913-11-08· cited 9×
• Mansfield v. Goodhue
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1947-05-19· cited 7×
• Capital Savings Bank & Trust Co. v. Hammett
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1921-02-09· cited 5×

Other cases named O'BRIEN v. Comstock Foods, Inc.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• O'BRIEN v. Comstock Foods, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1965-07-07· cited 23×