prod.liab.rep. (Cch) P 13,983 Kenneth Depaepe v. General Motors Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that Oakes is governing law of Illinois, but concluding that “the concept of enhanced injury had no place in” the case because the plaintiff’s injury was indivisible
• allowing the judge’s instruction that the jury could not consider whether plaintiffs nonuse of a seat belt caused plaintiffs injuries, because the law at the time of the accident did not require seatbelt use
• where instructional error permitted verdict on improper ground, error was not harmless
• where instructional error permitted verdict on improper ground, error was not harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).