Beale v. Biomet, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• anticipating that the Florida Supreme Court would not adopt the DTC exception because, in the then-eight years since Perez, “no other state has followed suit”
• rejecting FDUTPA claim where “the literature makes clear those very things that Plaintiffs 10 || complain were deceiving.”
• collecting cases in which sales representatives “made the drug appear much safer than it actually was”
• finding plaintiffs had not presented any evidence to suggest physician “was influenced by Biomet in any fashion in his decisions to use the device in his patients” when, inter alia, physician testified (1
• discussing fact that in Salmon and Incollingo, “[t]he physicians prescribing the drug testified that they were influenced by the representations of the detail men, and prescribed the drug much more freely than they would have without those representations”
• applying the learned intermediary doctrine to medical devices

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In re Zimmer, Nexgen Knee Implant Prods. Liab. Ltd.
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-03-08· cited 66×
• Amanda Watts v. Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2016-01-21· cited 54×
• Centocor, Inc. v. Hamilton
  Texas Supreme Court· 2012-06-08· cited 43×
• Tillman v. C.R. Bard, Inc.
  M.D. Florida· 2015-03-30· cited 42×
• Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp.
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-02-14· cited 38×
• Rimbert v. Eli Lilly and Co.
  D. New Mexico· 2008-08-22· cited 37×
• Nowell v. Medtronic Inc.
  D. New Mexico· 2019-03-29· cited 35×
• O'CONNELL v. Biomet, Inc.
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2010-03-18· cited 33×
• Huskey v. Ethicon, Inc.
  S.D. West Virginia· 2014-07-08· cited 32×
• Murthy v. Abbott Laboratories
  S.D. Texas· 2012-03-06· cited 18×
• Crewe v. Rich Dad Education, LLC
  S.D. New York· 2012-08-03· cited 17×
• Metz v. Wyeth, LLC
  M.D. Florida· 2012-03-28· cited 14×
• Patteson v. Astrazeneca, LP
  District of Columbia· 2012-07-09· cited 7×
• Tyree v. Boston Scientific Corp.
  S.D. West Virginia· 2014-10-23· cited 6×
• Mendez Montes De Oca v. Adventis Pharma
  D. Puerto Rico· 2008-09-30· cited 3×
• Martha Luna v. P Atrium Medical Corporation
  D. New Hampshire· 2021-05-14· cited 1×
• Theodore Joas v. Zimmer, Incorporated
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-03-08

Cites

54 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of Catrett
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 119,442×
• Erie Railroad v. Tompkins
  Supreme Court· 1938-04-25· cited 18,491×
• Allen v. Tyson Foods, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1997-09-10· cited 1,016×
• Incollingo v. Ewing
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 339×
• Incollingo v. EWING
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-01-25· cited 315×
• Rollins, Inc. v. Butland
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-12-15· cited 284×
• Stevens v. Parke, Davis & Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1973-03-14· cited 265×
• Wyeth Laboratories v. Reyes
  Supreme Court· 1974-12-23· cited 231×
• Reyes v. Wyeth Laboratories
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-07-31· cited 219×
• Edward Fritz v. Standard Security Life Insurance Company of New York
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-05-24· cited 180×
• Terhune v. A. H. Robins Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1978-04-27· cited 139×
• Perez v. Wyeth Laboratories Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1999-08-09· cited 118×
• Rollins, Inc. v. Heller
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-06-26· cited 110×
• Love v. Wolf
  California Court of Appeal· 1964-04-17· cited 106×
• Davis v. Powertel, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-12-29· cited 105×
• Sterling Drug, Inc., a Corporation v. Maxine F. Cornish
  Eighth Circuit· 1967-01-05· cited 103×
• McKee v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1982-06-01· cited 93×
• Samuels v. King Motor Co. of Fort Lauderdale
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-03-28· cited 91×
• Felix v. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-02-23· cited 91×