Brown v. Delaware Valley Transplant Program

How courts have described this case

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

• in good faith relied on state police’s efforts to locate next of kin and on judicial proceeding authorizing hospital’s decision
• but dissent argued good faith is a question of fact

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Colavito v. New York Organ Donor Network, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 2006-12-14· cited 275×
• Carey v. New England Organ Bank
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-03-15· cited 236×
• Ramirez v. Health Partners
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1998-06-23· cited 59×
• Kelly-Nevils v. Detroit Receiving Hospital
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1994-11-07· cited 23×
• Perry v. Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center, Inc.
  D. Kansas· 1995-04-26· cited 20×
• Schembre v. Mid-America Transplant Ass'n
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2004-05-11· cited 12×
• Rahman v. Mayo Clinic
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1998-05-26· cited 10×
• Geary v. Stanley Medical Research Institute
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2008-01-15· cited 6×
• Kennedy-McInnis v. Biomedical Tissue Services, Ltd.
  W.D. New York· 2016-04-11· cited 4×
• Callsen v. Cheltenham York Nursing Home
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-04-02· cited 2×
• Carey v. New England Organ Bank
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2004-04-23· cited 1×
• Brooke Shantelle Denison v. Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency, Inc., Shirley Schlessinger, M.D., and Dustin Shea Allen, M.D.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2026-04-16

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Marks v. Tasman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-04-10· cited 294×
• Penn Center House, Inc. v. Hoffman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-01-30· cited 196×
• Hayward v. Medical Center
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-21· cited 164×
• Dorohovich v. West American Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-04-03· cited 41×
• Banker v. Valley Forge Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-01-22· cited 40×
• Godlewski v. Pars Manufacturing Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-06-04· cited 35×
• Nicoletta v. Rochester Eye & Human Parts Bank, Inc.
  New York Supreme Court· 1987-09-18· cited 33×
• Peffer v. Penn 21 Associates
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-25· cited 22×
• Brown v. Delaware Valley Transplant Program
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-04-13· cited 17×
• Kiernan v. Hendrick
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1986-01-02· cited 14×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Broscious v. Fern
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-24· cited 3×