Wyman v. Ayer Properties, LLC.’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
4 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. · Ultramares Corp. v. Touche · Bay State-Spray & Provincetown Steamship, Inc. v. Caterpillar Tractor Co. · FMR Corp. v. Boston Edison Co. · 49 Ill. App. 3d 194 - Alfred N. Koplin & Co. v. Chrysler Corp., Airtemp Division
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Economic loss is defined as damages for inadequate value, costs of repair and replacement of the defective product or consequent loss of profits without any claim of personal injury or damage to other property. The economic loss doctrine reflects certain underlying policy rationales that are applicable to cases involving the sale of an allegedly defective product, including the rationale that where a commercial product injures itself and nothing or no one else, there is ■no need to create a product liability cause of action independent of contract obligation. Thus, the economic loss rule draws a distinction between the situation where the injury suffered is merely the failure of the product to function properly, and the situation, traditionally within the purview of tort law, where the plaintiff has been exposed, through a hazardous product, to an unreasonable risk of injury to his person or property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.