List of case studies in law
In law , numerous legal issues are discussed using fictitious or actual cases. This list contains key decisions and invented facts that clearly illustrate one or more legal problems and are cited in the legal literature:
German law
civil right
- Apple scab cases (BGHZ 80, 186; extension of producer liability to damage due to the ineffectiveness of the product)
- Bonifatius case ( RGZ 83, 223 ; differentiation of donations between living and death, §§ 516, 2301 BGB )
- Dombrand case (recourse in the case of spurious collective guilt) (RGZ 82, 206)
- Edelmannfall ( RGZ 117, 121 )
- Air travel case (§§ 812 ff. In connection with § 818 BGB) (BGHZ 55, 128)
- Milling machine case (BGHZ 50, 45; acquisition of ownership according to § 934 BGB)
- Money transporter case (BGH NJW 1997, 865; causality giving rise to liability in the event of indirect damage)
- Grindelhochhaus judgment (BGHZ 41, 157; term of use )
- Haakjöringsköd case ( RGZ 99, 147 ; falsa demonstratio non nocet )
- Hamburg car park case (BGHZ 21, 319)
- Herrenreiter case (general personal rights) (BGHZ 26, 349)
- Hondafall ( producer liability ) for breach of product monitoring obligations ( BGHZ 99, 167-181)
- Iran case (BGHZ 83, 197)
- Young bull case (BGHZ 55, 176; coincidence of §§ 950 ff. With §§ 932 ff. And §§ 812 ff. BGB)
- Critic case ( RGZ 133, 388 ; contract obligation with city operator)
- Cupola case (BGHZ 92, 143; ejection damage according to § 823 BGB, according to § 906 II BGB analogous to reversal of the burden of proof for illegality and fault)
- Linoleum roll case ( RGZ 78, 239 VI. Civil Senate of the Reichsgericht 7 December 1911 on quasi-contractual liability based on culpa in contrahendo (cic), which was not regulated at the time )
- Lottery case (BGH, NJW 1974, 1705; will to be legally bound for unpaid orders)
- Milupa judgment ( BGHZ 116, 60 ; product liability / manufacturer's obligation to notify)
- Pill case (BGHZ 97.372; in the genital area is right bond is not possible (not taking contraceptives))
- Reichseisenbahnfeldlokomotivenfall ( BGHZ 31, 129 ; development of the boom excess )
- Ruble case ( RGZ 105, 406 VI. Civil Senate of the Reichsgericht, November 30, 1922 on the open calculation error )
- Ruisdael case ( RGZ 135, 339 ; definition of defect, relationship between guarantee and contestation)
- Lettuce leaf fall (BGHZ 66, 51; contract with protective effect in favor of third parties )
- Black Sea coast case (BGHZ 63, 98; acknowledgment of spoiled vacation as financial loss, now regulated in § 651 n II BGB)
- Float switch case (BGHZ 67, 359; lack of continued feeding)
- Tram case (BGHZ 24, 21; turn by the BGH to the "wrong to act", which ultimately remained almost without consequences)
- Trier wine auction (BGHZ 91, 324; declaration of intent and objective recipient horizon)
- Zuckerfall (RGZ 135, 75; 138, 268; acquisition of property according to § 934 BGB - problem: secondary ownership)
Employment Law
- Christel Schmidt decision (ECJ C-392/92; requirements for the transfer of staff in the event of a transfer of business )
- Case Emmely (BAGE 134, 349; effectiveness of a termination requires individual examination and weighing of interests)
Public law
- Pharmacy judgment ( BVerfGE 7, 377 ; on freedom of occupation, Art. 12 GG)
- Bavarian Constitutional Court ( BayVerfGH , decision Vf. 32-VI-15 of November 17, 2015 http://www.gesetze-bayern.de/Content/Document/Y-300-Z-BECKRS-B-2015-N-55407? hl = true to effective legal protection according to Art. 19 IV GG)
- Benetton decision ( BVerfGE 107, 275; on the scope of the guarantee of human dignity as a barrier to commercial advertising)
- Bockenheim property purchase
- Brokdorf resolution ( BVerfGE 69, 315 ; on the constitutional interpretation of freedom of assembly )
- Elfes judgment ( BVerfGE 6, 32 ; general freedom of action from Art. 2 I GG)
- Knowledge of Kreuzberg ( PrOVG 9, 353)
- Lüth judgment ( BVerfGE 7, 198 ; on freedom of expression and indirect third-party effects as an expression of fundamental rights as property rights)
- Mephisto decision ( BVerfGE 30, 173 ff .; Artistic freedom, general personal rights and practical concordance )
- Müller-Arnold case ( Supreme Court around 1780 )
- Wet gravel decision ( BVerfGE 58, 300 ; on expropriation and encroachment equivalent to expropriation within the meaning of Art. 14 GG)
- Riding in the forest (BVerfGE 80, 137 ff.)
- Sasbach decision ( BVerfGE 61, 82 ; applicability of the basic rights to legal persons under public law)
- Wunsiedel decision ( BVerfGE 124, 300 ; on freedom of expression and assembly during NPD marches )
- Wüppesahl judgment ( BVerfGE 80, 188 ; on the status and rights of non-attached MPs according to Art. 38 GG)
Criminal law
- Conti affair (GDR-FRG show trial)
- Bathtub case ( RGSt 74, 84 ; differentiation between perpetration and participation )
- Attachment case (BGH, JZ 1981, 35)
- Gasoline casting case ( BGH NStZ 1986, 264 )
- Blood intoxication case ( BGHSt 7, 325 ; on the effect of an incapacity to blame only occurring during the execution of the crime )
- Bow wave case ( BGH 1 StR 273/97 of November 4, 1997 )
- Daschner case ( LG Frankfurt , NStZ 2005, 593; on rescue torture and its use as evidence)
- Service hat case ( BGHSt 19, 387 )
- Third half case ( BGHSt 58, 140 ; on the requirements and the immorality of consent in hooligans; see also third half )
- Goose Bay case (RGSt 48.58; for the unintentional and fraudulent tool of indirect perpetrators )
- Domestic tyrant case ( BGH 1 StR 483/02 ; to justify and excuse the domestic tyrant murder )
- High seat case ( BGHSt 31, 96 )
- Hoferbe case ( BGHSt 37, 214 )
- Cesspool case ( BGHSt 14, 193 )
- Katzenkönig case ( BGHSt 35, 347 )
- Labello case (BGH, NJW 1996, 2663 )
- Laepple judgment ( BGHSt 23, 46 ; on the problem of "intellectual coercion")
- Leather strap case , also sandbag case ( BGHSt 7, 363 ; to differentiate dolus eventualis from deliberate negligence)
- Leather spray case ( BGHSt 37, 106 ; inter alia to differentiate between doing and not doing in the sense of § 13 StGB)
- Line catcher case ( RGSt 30, 25 )
- Pistachio ice cream case ( BGH 1 StR 171/98 - judgment of January 19, 1999 (LG Heilbronn) . On the limits of the free evaluation of evidence according to § 261 StPO)
- Cyclist case ( BGHSt 11, 1 )
- Rose-Rosahl case ( PrObTr GA 7, 322; on the importance of the error in persona of the main culprit and its effect on the instigator)
- Red light case ( BGHSt 39, 133 )
- Rötzel case ( BGH, NJW 1971, 152 ; on the direct connection with bodily harm resulting in death)
- Sirius case ( BGHSt 32, 38 ; to differentiate between indirect perpetration and unpunished participation in suicide)
- Staschinski case ( BGHSt 18, 87 ; to differentiate between perpetration and participation )
- Electricity theft case ( RGSt 32, 165 ; on prohibition of analogy and electricity as an object of theft)
- Paperback case ( OLG Celle , NJW 1967, 1921)
- Angle grinder case (OLG Düsseldorf, NJW 1988, 922)
- Goat hair case ( RGSt 63, 211 ; demarcation between doing and not doing in the sense of § 13 StGB)
Civil procedural law
- Anastasia decision (to convince judges in civil proceedings)
Swiss law
European law
- Bosman decision (ECJ Coll. 1995, I-4921)
- Cassis de Dijon decision (1979 ECR I-649)
- Costa / ENEL decision ( ECR 1964, 1251)
- Daily Mail decision (ECJ Coll. 1988, 5483)
- Dassonville decision (ECJ Coll. 1974, 837)
- Eurowings decision (ECJ, October 26, 1999 - C-294/97)
- Francovich decision (ECJ Coll. 1991, 5357)
- Inspire Art decision (ECJ Coll. 2003, I-10155)
- Keck decision (ECJ Coll. 1993, I-6097)
- Kühne and Heitz NV / Productschap voor Pluimvee en Eieren (ECJ Coll. 2004, I-837)
- Maastricht judgment (BVerfG 89, 155)
- Mangold decision (2005 Coll. I-9981)
- "Murphy's Law" (C-403/08 and C-429/08 http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2011-10/cp110102de.pdf )
- As long as I ( BVerfGE 37, 271)
- Solange II (BVerfG 73, 339)
See also: Category: Decision of the European Court of Justice
United States law
- Atkins v. Virginia
- Baze v. Rees
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council
- Chisholm v. Georgia
- District of Columbia v. Brighter
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Griswold v. Connecticut
- Kennedy v. Louisiana
- Lawrence v. Texas
- Loving v. Virginia
- Marbury v. Madison
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- Miranda v. Arizona
- Muskrat v. United States
- Obergefell v. Hodges
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Roe v. calf
- Tabasco litigation (trademark law)
- United States v. Nixon
- Worcester v. Georgia
UK law
Contract Law
- Beswick v Beswick (1967)
- Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company (1892)
- Cehave v Bremer Handelsgesellschaft (1975)
- Cundy v Lindsay (1878)
- Felthouse v Bindley (1863)
- Re McArdie (1951)
- Re Selectmove
- Williams v Roffey Bros (1990)
Tort Law
Others
- Bushel's Case (1670)
- Rex v Sussex Justices, Ex parte McCarthy (1924)