206 F. Supp. 2d 749 - Wilson v. Dryvit Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Dalton v. Camp · Ragsdale v. Kennedy · Gafford v. General Electric Co. · Raritan River Steel Co. v. Cherry, Bekaert & Holland
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a component part of a product or a system injures the rest of the product or the system, only economic loss has occurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the only damage sustained is damage to the product itself, deemed 'economic loss.' " Jones v. Caterpillar, Inc. , No. 16-00331, 2017 WL 4865537 , at (E.D.N.C. July 11, 2017) (citing Wilson v. Dryvit Systems, Inc. , 206 F.Supp.2d 749 , 753 (E.D.N.C. 2002) ("North Carolina has adopted the economic loss rule, which prohibits the purchaser of a defective product from bringing a negligence action against the manufacturer or seller of that product to recover purely economic losses sustained as a result of that product's failure to perform as expected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rationale for the economic loss rule is that the sale of goods is accomplished by contract and the parties are free to include, or exclude, provisions as to the parties’ respective rights and remedies, should the product prove to be defective. To give a party a remedy in tort, where the defect in the product damages the actual product, would permit the party to ignore and avoid the rights and remedies granted or imposed by the parties’ contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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