Whaley v. Rheem Manufacturing Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing the requirement of expert testimony when workings of a product are beyond the common knowledge of laymen
• “It almost goes without saying that the identified product defect must be the proximate cause of the plaintiffs injury.”
• “It almost goes without saying that the identified product defect must be the proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injury.”
• “In order to prevail in a products liability action, a plaintiff must prove that the product in question was either defective or unreasonably dangerous, as those concepts are defined in the Act, at the time it left the control of the manufacturer or seller.”
• “In order to prevail in a products liability action, a plaintiff must prove that the product in question was either defective or unreasonably dangerous, as those concepts are defined in the Act, at the time it left the control of the manufacturer or seller.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).