Bryant v. Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• no breach of warranty claim by patient who used drug because there was no privity between the manufacturer of drug and patient since patient did not purchase drug directly from manufacturer
• physical precedent, with one judge urging adoption of a design defect test in the Restatement (Third) of Torts, which test was neither adopted by Congress in the Vaccine Act nor in existence at the time
• “A claim for negligent failure to warn exists separately from strict liability claims.”
• “[O]nce a prima facie case for design defect is established, we hold that a pharmaceutical manufacturer will be relieved from strict liability only when it demonstrates that it has met the requirements of Comment k.”
• where plaintiff did not purchase drug directly from the manufacturer, plaintiff did not fall into class of third-party beneficiaries who could recover for a breach of implied warranty claim, and thus no recovery on this claim was possible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dietz v. Smithkline Beecham Corp.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-03-05· cited 85×
• Levine v. Wyeth
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2008-01-18· cited 36×
• Moss v. Wyeth Inc.
  D. Connecticut· 2012-05-24· cited 21×
• Swicegood v. Pliva, Inc.
  N.D. Georgia· 2008-04-02· cited 18×
• Home Depot U. S. A., Inc. v. Tvrdeich
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-16· cited 14×
• Boswell v. Overhead Door Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-25· cited 13×
• Frazier v. Mylan Inc.
  N.D. Georgia· 2012-12-18· cited 12×
• American Home Products Corp. v. Ferrari
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-06· cited 10×
• Catlett v. Wyeth, Inc.
  M.D. Georgia· 2004-09-14· cited 10×
• In re Hardieplank Fiber Cement Siding Litig.
  D. Maine· 2018-01-02· cited 10×
• Edwards v. Wisconsin Pharmacal Co.
  N.D. Georgia· 2013-12-13· cited 10×
• Benefield v. Pfizer Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2015-05-01· cited 8×
• Trickett v. Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.
  S.D. Georgia· 2008-02-21· cited 7×
• Dailey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-02-03· cited 6×
• Kobar Ex Rel Kobar v. Novartis Corp.
  D. Arizona· 2005-06-03· cited 6×
• Christiansen v. Wright Medical Technology Inc.
  N.D. Georgia· 2016-04-05· cited 5×
• Weilbrenner v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.
  M.D. Georgia· 2010-03-10· cited 4×
• Booker v. Johnson & Johnson
  N.D. Ohio· 2014-10-10· cited 4×
• Levine v. Wyeth
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2006-10-27
• YAMAHA MOTOR MANUFACTURING COPORATION OF AMERICA v. ELIZABETH HALL
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-06-22

Cites

29 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×
• Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-26· cited 2,291×
• Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-11· cited 1,181×
• Buckman Co. v. Plaintiffs' Legal Committee
  Supreme Court· 2001-02-21· cited 956×
• Feldman v. Lederle Laboratories
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1984-07-30· cited 248×
• Brown v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1988-03-31· cited 232×
• Banks v. ICI Americas, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-12-05· cited 184×
• Freeman v. Hoffman-La Roche, Inc.
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2000-10-27· cited 123×
• Toner v. Lederle Laboratories
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1987-02-04· cited 86×
• Grundberg v. Upjohn Co.
  Utah Supreme Court· 1991-05-14· cited 57×
• Taylor v. THE STATE
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-05-10· cited 53×
• Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-09-12· cited 53×
• Ogletree v. Navistar International Transportation Corp.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 50×
• Tansy v. Dacomed Corp.
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1994-12-20· cited 49×
• Adams v. GD Searle & Co., Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-01-18· cited 39×
• Doyle v. Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-03· cited 28×
• Hawkins v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-09-12· cited 27×
• Caraker v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp.
  S.D. Illinois· 2001-09-04· cited 27×
• Jones v. NordicTrack, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 25×
• J. B. Hunt Transport, Inc. v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-05· cited 25×