Legal Opinion
Goldman v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided October 14, 1987No. 86-1470PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWolff, J.
In this case we are asked to decide whether the theory of alternative liability, as recognized by this court in Minnich v. Ashland Oil Co. (1984), 15 Ohio St. 3d 396, 15 OBR 511, 473 N.E. 2d 1199, is applicable to the facts of this case. If it is not, we then must decide whether we should recognize as a theory of recovery in this case the market-share theory of liability, as first espoused in Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories (1980), 26 Cal. 3d 588, 163 Cal. Rptr. 132, 607 P. 2d 924, certiorari denied sub nom. E.R. Squibb & Sons v. Sindell (1980), 449 U.S. 912. The Court of Appeals for Lucas…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Clarence Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation, Nationalsurety Corporation, Intervenor-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
- Summers v. TiceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1948
- Sindell v. Abbott LaboratoriesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1980
- Nutt v. AC & S. CO., INC.Superior Court of Delaware · 1986
- Wilford Leroy Thompson, Jr. v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
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3Cited by52 opinions
- Robertson v. Allied Signal, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1990
- Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc.California Supreme Court · 1997
- Horton v. Harwick Chemical Corp.Ohio Supreme Court · 1995
- Horton v. Harwick Chem. Corp.Ohio Supreme Court · 1995
- Smith v. Eli Lilly & Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1990
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