Blum v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• precluding expert testimony that infant's clubbed feet resulted from ingestion of drug Bendectin by mother during fetal gestation
• precluding expert testimony that infant’s clubbed feet resulted from ingestion of drug Ben-dectin by mother during fetal gestation
• no studies indicating ingestion of drug Bendectin during fetal gestation can cause birth defects, or specifically, clubbed feet
• no studies indicating ingestion of drug Bendectin during fetal gestation can cause birth defects, or specifically, clubbed feet
• expert testimony regarding causal link between mother's ingestion of drug and child's birth defect deemed too unreliable to be admitted where it involved recalculation of data used in other studies
• expert testimony regarding causal link between mother’s ingestion of drug and child’s birth defect deemed too unreliable to be admitted where it involved recalculation of data used in other studies

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Cited by

35 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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• Grady v. Frito-Lay, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-31· cited 277×
• Kerby Keane Keller v. David Larkins
  Third Circuit· 2001-05-15· cited 163×
• Betz v. Pneumo Abex LLC
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-23· cited 148×
• Reading Radio, Inc. v. Fink
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-19· cited 98×
• Trach v. Fellin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-02-11· cited 97×
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Dengler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-30· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Harrell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-12· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Hetzel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-03-14· cited 41×
• Stange, T. v. Janssen Pharmaceuticals
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-01-08· cited 40×
• City of Phila. v. Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-10-17· cited 30×
• Walsh, R. v. BASF Corporation
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-20· cited 23×
• Tucker v. Community Medical Center
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-19· cited 17×
• Haney v. Pagnanelli
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-07-14· cited 16×
• Cummins v. Rosa
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-22· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Serge
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2001-09-14· cited 10×
• Grady v. Frito-Lay, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 8×
• M.C.M. ex rel. M.G.M. v. Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-15· cited 8×
• Betz v. Pneumo Abex LLC
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-04-30· cited 6×
• Riccio v. S&T Contractors
  Chester County Court of Common Pleas· 2001-06-22· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 21,376×
• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• State v. Copeland
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-09-19· cited 279×
• Connecticut v. Porter
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-05-20· cited 268×
• Commonwealth v. Topa
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 215×
• Carita Richardson, Infant, by S. & E. Richardson, Guardians v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc., a Delaware Corporation
  D.C. Circuit· 1988-09-27· cited 161×
• Commonwealth v. Crews
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-21· cited 125×
• Margo Lynch, Ppa Dennis Lynch, Dennis Lynch and Margaret Lynch v. Merrell-National Laboratories, Division of Richardson-Merrell, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1987-09-30· cited 114×
• Deluca, an Infant, by Her Guardian Ad Litem, Deluca v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1994-01-10· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Blasioli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-06-16· cited 79×
• Richardson v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1989-10-02· cited 63×
• Blum Ex Rel. Blum v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-29· cited 54×
• Wade-Greaux Ex Rel. Greaux v. Whitehall Laboratories, Inc.
  Virgin Islands· 1994-03-03· cited 46×
• Sekou Ealy v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1990-03-09· cited 41×
• Blum v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-03· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Oakes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 33×
• Arthur v. Kuchar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-09-17· cited 28×
• Richardson v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1986-12-19· cited 23×
• DeLuca Ex Rel. DeLuca v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  D. New Jersey· 1992-05-11· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Dobson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-09-18· cited 18×

Other cases named Blum v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Blum v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-03· cited 33×
• Blum v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-14· cited 11×
• Blum v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc.
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1988-05-12