Presbrey v. Gillette Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Regardless of plaintiffs theory [of liability], the manufacturer [of antiperspirant] owes no prior duty to warn of a risk that is remotely possible to the unknown few in the population.”
• “The unusual susceptibility of the consumer is generally recognized as a complete defense where the manufacturer did not know and had no reason to know that a very few users of his product might be injured.”
• “[C]onjecture, guesswork, or suspicion is insufficient.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).