Cunningham v. Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• fundamental error for the trial court to fail to give instructions on causation in a products liability case
• defendant overcame presumption plaintiff would have heeded adequate warning about polio vaccine with evidence that Oklahoma was epidemic state and that without vaccine plaintiff faced \considerable risk\ of contracting polio
• defendant overcame presumption plaintiff would have heeded adequate warning about polio vaccine with evidence that Oklahoma was epidemic state and that without vaccine plaintiff faced “considerable risk” of contracting polio

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2008-02-20· cited 735×
• Eck v. Parke, Davis & Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-07-17· cited 224×
• Seley v. G. D. Searle & Co.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1981-07-15· cited 209×
• Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Balbos
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-04-10· cited 152×
• Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. v. Chapman
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-05-02· cited 134×
• Moore v. Ford Motor Co.
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2011-01-25· cited 123×
• Coffman v. Keene Corp.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1993-07-26· cited 120×
• Cornfeldt v. Tongen
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-12-30· cited 117×
• Akin v. Big Three Industries
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-08-31· cited 101×
• McKee v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1982-06-01· cited 93×
• Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. v. Chapman
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-03-29· cited 93×
• Campos v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1984-12-21· cited 89×
• Wayne Robbins v. Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association
  Eighth Circuit· 1977-04-08· cited 85×
• Grover Hill Grain Co. v. Baughman-Oster, Inc., Defendant-Third Party Champion Screw Company, Third Party
  Third Circuit· 1984-03-05· cited 82×
• Smith v. United States Gypsum Co.
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1980-02-26· cited 80×
• Akin v. Ashland Chemical Co.
  Third Circuit· 1998-08-21· cited 74×
• Edwards v. Basel Pharmaceuticals
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1997-03-04· cited 64×
• Butz v. Werner
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1989-03-21· cited 52×
• Kearl v. Lederle Laboratories
  California Court of Appeal· 1985-09-27· cited 51×
• Larkin v. Pfizer, Inc.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-06-17· cited 42×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jerry W. Canterbury v. William Thornton Spence and the Washington Hospital Center, a Body Corporate
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-07-20· cited 455×
• Cobbs v. Grant
  California Supreme Court· 1972-10-27· cited 393×
• Kirkland v. General Motors Corporation
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1974-04-23· cited 340×
• Reyes v. Wyeth Laboratories
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-07-31· cited 219×
• Davis v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1968-01-22· cited 165×
• Sterling Drug, Inc., a Corporation v. Maxine F. Cornish
  Eighth Circuit· 1967-01-05· cited 103×
• Alman Brothers Farms & Feed Mill, Inc. v. Diamond Laboratories, Inc., and Southwestern Laboratories, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1971-01-28· cited 67×
• Parke-Davis and Company, a Corporation v. Shane Stromsodt, a Minor, by Robert M. Stromsodt, His Guardian Ad Litem
  Eighth Circuit· 1969-07-31· cited 54×
• Stahlheber v. American Cyanamid Company
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1970-02-09· cited 35×