667 F. Supp. 1332 - Morris v. Parke, Davis & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably 137 Ill. 2d 222 - Smith v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1990), Shackil v. Lederle Laboratories (1989)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 201 (ADAMHA Reorganization Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 262 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009) · 42 U.S.C. § 300A
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Marks v. United States · Hillsborough County v. Automated Medical Laboratories, Inc. · 20 Cal. 3d 413 - Barker v. Lull Engineering Co. · 26 Cal. 3d 588 - Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Comment k's protection is expressly conditioned by the requirement that the drug be `properly prepared and marketed'; i.e., that it not have a manufacturing defect. A drug that has a manufacturing defect is, by definition, not `unavoidably unsafe.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[n]o state may establish or enforce a law which prohibits an individual from bringing a civil action against a vaccine manufacturer for damages for a vaccine-related injury or death....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.