Payton v. Abbott Labs

How courts have described this case

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

• “hard-and-fast definition’ ’ of joint venture not consonant with the need for equitable relief in a variety of circumstances
• joint venture requires \joint [but not necessarily equal] control of the objectives of the undertaking and of the means of achieving those objectives\
• applying § 876[b] under Massachusetts law in products liability action
• such transactions do not permit an inference of conspiracy
• such transactions do not permit an inference of conspiracy
• such transactions do not permit an inference of conspiracy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1999-10-21· cited 318×
• Halberstam v. Welch
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-04-12· cited 277×
• Juhl v. Airington
  Texas Supreme Court· 1997-01-31· cited 204×
• Kurker v. Hell
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-01-22· cited 195×
• Burnside v. Abbott Laboratories
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-20· cited 167×
• Bichler v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-05-11· cited 155×
• Taylor v. American Chemistry Council
  First Circuit· 2009-08-03· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Moses
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-18· cited 113×
• Kyte v. Philip Morris Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-25· cited 71×
• Conley v. Boyle Drug Co.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-11-01· cited 66×
• Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. v. Brauer
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-09-15· cited 57×
• Stock v. Fife
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-01-25· cited 50×
• Morton v. Abbott Laboratories
  M.D. Florida· 1982-03-25· cited 44×
• Aetna Casualty Surety Co. v. P & B Autobody
  First Circuit· 1994-12-29· cited 36×
• Maruho Co. v. Miles, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1993-12-29· cited 34×
• Bair v. Purcell
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2007-08-02· cited 32×
• Helen Grenier Lyon, Etc. v. The Ranger III and Gerald J. Costa, Helen Grenier Lyon, Etc. v. The Ranger III and Gerald J. Costa
  First Circuit· 1988-10-19· cited 30×
• Sheffield v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1983-06-08· cited 30×
• Aetna Casualty v. Arsenal Auto Repairs
  First Circuit· 1994-12-29· cited 26×
• Searcy v. Paul
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-05-31· cited 26×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Robert C. Hahn v. Francis W. Sargent
  First Circuit· 1975-09-18· cited 884×
• Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1939-02-13· cited 677×
• Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories
  California Supreme Court· 1980-03-20· cited 373×
• Mounsey v. Ellard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-06-06· cited 335×
• Hall v. EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co., Inc.
  E.D. New York· 1972-05-18· cited 155×
• Cardullo v. Landau
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1952-05-01· cited 104×
• Air Technology Corp. v. General Electric Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1964-06-10· cited 77×
• Warsofsky v. Sherman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1950-07-26· cited 58×
• Loftus v. Pelletier
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1916-03-01· cited 52×
• Lyons v. Premo Pharmaceutical Labs, Inc.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1979-08-08· cited 45×
• Gurney v. Tenney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1908-02-28· cited 45×
• Payton v. Abbott Labs
  D. Massachusetts· 1979-07-30· cited 42×
• Nelson v. Nason
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1961-11-20· cited 39×
• American Agricultural Chemical Co. v. Robertson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1930-10-08· cited 24×
• McGrath v. Sullivan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-06-07· cited 16×
• Orszulak v. Bujnevicie
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1969-01-06· cited 14×
• Kleinschmidt v. United States
  D. Massachusetts· 1956-10-18· cited 13×
• Brown v. Perkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1861-01-15· cited 11×
• McGah v. Quigley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-07-25· cited 2×