Coyle v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the manufacturer has no duty to directly warn patients of the risks of drugs”
• applying comment k to exclude strict liability for pharmacists who sell prescription drugs with inadequate warnings
• applying comment k to exclude strict liability for pharmacists who sell prescription drugs with inadequate warnings
• “[Requiring pharmacies to warn consumers] would have the effect of undermining the physician-patient relationship by engendering fear, doubt, and second-guessing.”
• refusing to find pharmacists strictly liable for dispensing defective drugs because “it is not the pharmacist on whom the public ‘is forced to rely’ to obtain the products they need”
• refusing to find pharmacists strictly liable for dispensing defective drugs because \it is not the pharmacist on whom the public `is forced to rely' to obtain the products they need\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Tincher, T. v. Omega Flex, Inc., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-19· cited 247×
• Cottam v. CVS Pharmacy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-03-14· cited 113×
• Lance v. Wyeth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-01-21· cited 101×
• Travertine Corp. v. Lexington-Silverwood
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-07-01· cited 87×
• Hahn v. Richter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-28· cited 83×
• Moore Ex Rel. Moore v. Memorial Hosp. of Gulfport
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-09-05· cited 75×
• In Re Rezulin Products Liability Litigation
  S.D. New York· 2001-03-01· cited 61×
• Schmidt v. Boardman Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-01-24· cited 59×
• Walker v. Jack Eckerd Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-03· cited 55×
• Cafazzo v. Central Medical Health Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-11-28· cited 53×
• Bugosh v. I.U. North America, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-06-16· cited 44×
• Centocor, Inc. v. Hamilton
  Texas Supreme Court· 2012-06-08· cited 43×
• Larkin v. Pfizer, Inc.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-06-17· cited 42×
• Soufflas v. Zimmer, Inc.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2007-02-21· cited 41×
• Blum v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-03· cited 33×
• Heindel v. Pfizer, Inc.
  D. New Jersey· 2004-06-07· cited 30×
• Walls v. Alpharma USPD, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2004-03-05· cited 23×
• Rite Aid Corp. v. Levy-Gray
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-03-13· cited 21×
• Kowalski v. Rose Drugs of Dardanelle, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2011-02-09· cited 21×
• Mazur v. Merck & Co.
  Third Circuit· 1992-06-18· cited 20×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Webb v. Zern
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-06-24· cited 513×
• Incollingo v. Ewing
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 339×
• Incollingo v. EWING
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-01-25· cited 315×
• Musser v. Vilsmeier Auction Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-30· cited 163×
• Francioni v. Gibsonia Truck Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-28· cited 119×
• Baldino v. Castagna
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-29· cited 101×
• Leibowitz v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-06-14· cited 86×
• Makripodis v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-16· cited 62×
• Murphy v. E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 1985-12-30· cited 57×
• McLeod v. WS Merrell Co., Div. of Richardson-Merrell
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1965-05-05· cited 56×
• Nath v. National Equipment Leasing Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-17· cited 47×
• Bichler v. Willing
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1977-07-14· cited 42×
• Raynor v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1986-08-08· cited 20×
• Ramirez v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1986-01-29· cited 18×
• Ullman v. Grant
  New York Supreme Court· 1982-04-26· cited 15×
• Coyle v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-14· cited 7×

Other cases named Coyle v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Coyle v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-14· cited 7×
• Coyle v. Richardson-Merrell Inc.
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1987-04-10