George v. Parke-Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding manufacturers of DES liable to a woman born alive but injured in utero
• holding manufacturers of DES liable to a woman born alive but injured in utero
• discussing level of activity in the manufacture, sale, and distribution of a product a successor must engage in before they may be held liable under the product line exception
• in order to inhibit defendants from randomly impleading insolvent corporations to reduce their share of presumptive liability, defendants are required to establish the actual market share of impleaded defendants
• in order to inhibit defendants from randomly impleading insolvent corporations to reduce their share of presumptive liability, defendants are required to establish the actual market share of impleaded defendants
• “The product line [doctrine] requires the corporation to manufacture the same type of product, and not merely stay in the same type of manufacturing business.”

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Cited by

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

• Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1989-04-04· cited 207×
• Washburn v. Beatt Equipment Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1992-11-25· cited 188×
• Smith v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-10-01· cited 116×
• Green v. A.P.C.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-08-20· cited 111×
• Gaulding v. Celotex Corp.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1989-06-07· cited 104×
• Suzanne E. Tidler, and Helene Mankowitz v. Eli Lilly and Company
  D.C. Circuit· 1988-07-12· cited 88×
• City of Philadelphia v. Lead Industries Ass'n
  Third Circuit· 1993-05-11· cited 75×
• Conley v. Boyle Drug Co.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-11-01· cited 66×
• Agency for Health Care v. Assoc. Indus.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-06-27· cited 66×
• Smith v. Cutter Biological, Inc.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1991-11-29· cited 41×
• Green v. APC (Am. Pharmaceutical Co.)
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-08-20· cited 39×
• Parker v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1995-07-06· cited 35×
• City Of Philadelphia v. Lead Industries Association, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1993-05-11· cited 33×
• White v. Weiner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-07-10· cited 25×
• Smith v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-05-25· cited 25×
• Shackil v. Lederle Laboratories
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1987-08-12· cited 22×
• Bond v. EI Du Pont De Nemours and Co.
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1993-07-22· cited 17×
• Farmex Inc. v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-29· cited 17×
• Santiago v. Sherwin-Williams Co.
  D. Massachusetts· 1992-01-13· cited 17×
• Butler v. Lamont School District No. 246
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-11-19· cited 16×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ray v. Alad Corp.
  California Supreme Court· 1977-02-24· cited 396×
• Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories
  California Supreme Court· 1980-03-20· cited 373×
• Turner v. Bituminous Casualty Co.
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1976-08-26· cited 264×
• Martin v. Abbott Laboratories
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-10-04· cited 160×
• Stanley Knapp, Jr. v. North American Rockwell Corporation v. Mrs. Smith's Pie Company, Third-Party-Defendant
  Third Circuit· 1974-12-27· cited 115×
• Meisel v. M & N Modern Hydraulic Press Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-05-27· cited 81×
• Hall v. Armstrong Cork, Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-12-20· cited 59×
• Ladley v. Saint Paul Fire & Marine Insurance
  Washington Supreme Court· 1968-05-29· cited 31×

Other cases named George v. Parke-Davis

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• George v. Parke-Davis
  E.D. Washington· 1988-04-19· cited 1×