Martin v. Abbott Laboratories

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 Meisel court concluded \successor liability was inapplicable because there had been no transfer of assets\
• adopting \modified market share\ liability, in which plaintiff must join only one defendant who produced or marketed injury-causing product and then shifting the burden to the defendant to prove its percentage share of market and thereby lower presumptive equal share of market
• adopting \modified market share\ liability, in which plaintiff must join only one defendant who produced or marketed injury-causing product and then shifting the burden to the defendant to prove its percentage share of market and thereby lower presumptive equal share of market
• defendants in DES case entitled to exculpate themselves from liability by establishing they did not market in geographic area where plaintiffs mother obtained the drug
• “The number of firms marketing DES has fluctuated considerably over the years. Estimates are that up to 200 or 300 companies manufactured and marketed DES between 1947 and 1971.”
• plaintiff only has to sue one defendant that manufactured the product

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Robertson v. Allied Signal, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1990-08-28· cited 375×
• McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1999-10-21· cited 318×
• Lockwood v. a C & S, Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-10-15· cited 212×
• Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1989-04-04· cited 207×
• Burnside v. Abbott Laboratories
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-20· cited 167×
• Hue v. Farmboy Spray Co., Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-10-26· cited 161×
• Skipworth v. Lead Industries Ass'n, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-02-19· cited 121×
• 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×
• Northern Insurance Company of New York, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Allied Mutual Insurance Company, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-02-07· cited 91×
• Suzanne E. Tidler, and Helene Mankowitz v. Eli Lilly and Company
  D.C. Circuit· 1988-07-12· cited 88×
• Pearson Ex Rel. Trent v. National Feeding Systems, Inc.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-11-21· cited 84×
• Sholtis v. American Cyanamid Co.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1989-12-22· cited 80×
• Burkhart v. Harrod
  Washington Supreme Court· 1988-05-05· cited 79×
• Niccum v. Hydra Tool Corp.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-03-31· cited 78×
• City of Philadelphia v. Lead Industries Ass'n
  Third Circuit· 1993-05-11· cited 75×
• Shackil v. Lederle Laboratories
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1989-07-31· cited 73×
• Louisiana-Pacific Corp. v. Asarco, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-07-03· cited 68×
• Penelope Krist v. Eli Lilly and Company v. Abbott Laboratories, Third-Party
  Third Circuit· 1990-03-13· cited 67×

Cites

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

• Summers v. Tice
  California Supreme Court· 1948-11-17· cited 428×
• Payton v. Abbott Labs
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-22· cited 399×
• 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×
• Ramirez v. Amsted Industries, Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1981-06-18· cited 250×
• Abel v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1984-02-06· cited 188×
• Dawejko v. Jorgensen Steel Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-08-14· cited 166×
• Hall v. EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co., Inc.
  E.D. New York· 1972-05-18· cited 155×
• Bichler v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-05-11· cited 155×
• Seattle-First National Bank v. Tabert
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-11-26· cited 151×
• Raymond Leannais and Catherine Leannais v. Cincinnati, Incorporated and Cincinnati-Forte Company and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
  Seventh Circuit· 1977-10-18· cited 150×
• Ulmer v. Ford Motor Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-03-20· cited 144×
• Charles Travis and Jean Travis v. Harris Corp., Harris-Intertype Corporation, Sheridan Division and Bruno MacHinery Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1977-12-21· cited 135×
• Glass v. Stahl Specialty Company
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-10-07· cited 94×
• Cyr v. B. Offen & Co.
  First Circuit· 1974-07-18· cited 89×
• Bernard v. Kee Mfg. Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-01-28· cited 82×
• Meisel v. M & N Modern Hydraulic Press Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-05-27· cited 81×
• Ryan v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  D. South Carolina· 1981-05-14· cited 79×
• Namm v. Charles E. Frosst & Co.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1981-02-05· cited 52×