Felix v. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “the drug manufacturer could not be penalized for the failure of the doctor to impart knowledge concerning the dangers of the drug of which the doctor had been warned and was aware”
• determining that while drug companies have the duty to warn of a drug’s dangerous side effects, that duty to warn is directed to physicians rather than patients under the “learned intermediary” doctrine
• holding no proximate cause when intermediary understood warnings and knew of warned danger
• addressing adequacy of the warning language and whether the allegedly inadequate warning was the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injury
• addressing adequacy of the warning language and whether the allegedly inadequate warning was the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injury
• affirming the appellate affirmation of the trial court’s entry of summary judgment for defendants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Thom v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 2003-12-22· cited 390×
• Pittman v. Upjohn Co.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-11-28· cited 150×
• Amal Eghnayem v. Boston Scientific Corporation
  Eleventh Circuit· 2017-10-19· cited 121×
• Gourdine v. Crews
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-09-04· cited 111×
• In Re Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation
  E.D. New York· 2007-06-11· cited 95×
• Joseph Mink v. Smith & Nephew, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2017-06-26· cited 68×
• Vitanza v. Upjohn Co.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2001-08-07· cited 67×
• Andrea Guarino v. Wyeth, LLC
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-06-25· cited 57×
• Centocor, Inc. v. Hamilton
  Texas Supreme Court· 2012-06-08· cited 43×
• Larkin v. Pfizer, Inc.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-06-17· cited 42×
• Adams v. GD Searle & Co., Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-01-18· cited 39×
• Upjohn Company v. MacMurdo
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-05-31· cited 37×
• Haggerty v. Upjohn Co.
  S.D. Florida· 1996-12-06· cited 36×
• Windham v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc.
  S.D. Mississippi· 1992-02-14· cited 34×
• Beale v. Biomet, Inc.
  S.D. Florida· 2007-06-15· cited 32×
• Charlotte Salinero v. Johnson & Johnson
  Eleventh Circuit· 2021-04-29· cited 31×
• State Ex Rel. Johnson & Johnson Corp. v. Karl
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2007-06-29· cited 30×
• In Re Norplant Contraceptive Products Liability Litigation
  E.D. Texas· 2002-08-14· cited 27×
• Christopher v. Cutter Laboratories
  Eleventh Circuit· 1995-06-02· cited 27×
• Strumph v. Schering Corp.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1992-05-21· cited 20×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Wyeth Laboratories v. Reyes
  Supreme Court· 1974-12-23· cited 231×
• Reyes v. Wyeth Laboratories
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-07-31· cited 219×
• Wolfgruber v. Upjohn Co.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1979-12-21· cited 117×
• Tampa Drug Company v. Wait
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1958-05-07· cited 115×
• Wolfgruber v. Upjohn Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-12-18· cited 91×
• Chambers v. G. D. Searle & Co.
  D. Maryland· 1975-12-11· cited 75×
• Nolan v. Dillon
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1971-04-14· cited 63×
• Doreen Chambers, Anthony G. Chambers v. G. D. Searle & Company
  Fourth Circuit· 1977-12-15· cited 55×
• Buckner v. Allergan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-07-01· cited 50×
• Johnson v. American Cyanamid Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1986-05-19· cited 44×
• Goodson v. Searle Laboratories
  D. Connecticut· 1978-10-23· cited 41×
• Hurley v. Lederle Laboratories, Division of American Cyanamid Co.
  E.D. Texas· 1986-12-31· cited 24×
• Lake v. Konstantinu
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-07-15· cited 21×
• Weinberger v. Bristol-Myers Co.
  D. Maryland· 1986-12-04· cited 17×
• Wooten v. Johnson & Johnson Products, Inc.
  N.D. Illinois· 1986-05-29· cited 14×
• Kinney v. Hutchinson
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1985-04-15· cited 12×
• Felix v. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-09-29· cited 11×
• James L. Hurley, Jr., Etc. v. Lederle Laboratories Division of American Cyanamid Co., Defendants
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-08-17· cited 10×
• MacMurdo v. Upjohn Co.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-12-21· cited 9×
• Johnson v. American Cyanamid Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1988-06-03· cited 9×

Other cases named Felix v. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Felix v. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-09-29· cited 11×