Eldridge v. Eli Lilly & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “A pharmacist owes a duty of ordinary care in practicing his profession, but such care requires the highest degree of prudence, thoughtfulness and diligence, and it is proportioned to the danger involved”
• because “[t]he propriety of a prescription depends not only on the propensities of the drug but also on the patient’s condition” to fulfill such a duty the “pharmacist would have to interject himself into the doctor-patient relationship and practice medicine without a license”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1987-10-05· cited 451×
• Happel v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2002-03-21· cited 162×
• Frye v. Medicare-Glaser Corp.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1992-10-22· cited 161×
• McKee v. American Home Products Corp.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1989-11-30· cited 150×
• Dooley v. Everett
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1990-12-12· cited 106×
• Walker v. Jack Eckerd Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-03· cited 55×
• Leesley v. West
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-01-11· cited 49×
• Morgan v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-08-10· cited 43×
• Fakhouri v. Taylor
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-06-07· cited 39×
• Adkins v. Mong
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1988-03-02· cited 30×
• Stebbins v. Concord Wrigley Drugs, Inc
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1987-11-02· cited 26×
• Estate of Johnson v. Badger Acquisition
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-04-04· cited 25×
• Nichols v. Central Merchandise, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1991-09-27· cited 24×
• Walls v. Alpharma USPD, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2004-03-05· cited 23×
• Abrams v. Bute
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2016-03-09· cited 18×
• Happel v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-09-29· cited 17×
• KLASCH v. Walgreen Co.
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2011-11-23· cited 17×
• Oakey v. May Maple Pharmacy, Inc.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2017-04-13· cited 17×
• Brooks v. Merck & Co., Inc.
  S.D. Illinois· 2006-07-31· cited 16×
• Paquin v. Tillinghast
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1986-11-06· cited 15×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Barthel v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1978-11-22· cited 116×
• Nancy C. Lindsay and Bruce H. Lindsay v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1980-12-08· cited 102×
• Mahr v. G. D. Searle & Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-03-07· cited 58×
• Jones v. Irvin
  S.D. Illinois· 1985-02-15· cited 31×
• Pysz v. Henry's Drug Store
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-10-10· cited 22×
• Talman v. Department of Registration & Education
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-11-08· cited 14×
• Jones v. Walgreen Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1932-02-23· cited 5×