Payton v. Abbott Labs

Decided April 23, 1981. Walter Jay Skinner wrote the opinion for the court.

512 F. Supp. 1031 · Cited 67 times

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Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• Cardullo v. Landau · 105 N.E.2d 843
• Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories · 607 P.2d 924
• Air Technology Corp. v. General Electric Co. · 199 N.E.2d 538
• Mounsey v. Ellard · 297 N.E.2d 43
• Kleinschmidt v. United States · 146 F. Supp. 253
• Warsofsky v. Sherman · 93 N.E.2d 612
• Nelson v. Nason · 177 N.E.2d 887
• Orszulak v. Bujnevicie · 243 N.E.2d 897
• Hall v. EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co., Inc. · 345 F. Supp. 353
• McGrath v. Sullivan · 303 Mass. 327
• McGah v. Quigley · 303 Mass. 598

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• McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. · 720 N.E.2d 242
• Kyte v. Philip Morris Inc. · 556 N.E.2d 1025
• Morton v. Abbott Laboratories · 538 F. Supp. 593
• Juhl v. Airington · 936 S.W.2d 640
• University System of New Hampshire v. United States Gypsum Co. · 756 F. Supp. 640
• Santiago v. Sherwin-Williams Co. · 794 F. Supp. 29
• Collins v. Eli Lilly & Co. · 342 N.W.2d 37
• Bichler v. Eli Lilly & Co. · 55 N.Y.2d 571
• Commonwealth v. Moses · 557 N.E.2d 14
• Conley v. Boyle Drug Co. · 570 So. 2d 275
• Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. v. Brauer · 655 N.E.2d 1162
• Stock v. Fife · 430 N.E.2d 845
• Bair v. Purcell · 500 F. Supp. 2d 468
• Sheffield v. Eli Lilly & Co. · 144 Cal. App. 3d 583
• Norman v. Brown, Todd & Heyburn · 693 F. Supp. 1259
• Heinrich Ex Rel. Heinrich v. Sweet · 49 F. Supp. 2d 27
• Wetherill v. University of Chicago · 548 F. Supp. 66
• Austin v. Bradley, Barry & Tarlow, P.C. · 836 F. Supp. 36
• Conley v. Boyle Drug Co. · 477 So. 2d 600
• Senart v. Mobay Chemical Corp. · 597 F. Supp. 502
• Fickes v. Sun Expert, Inc. · 762 F. Supp. 998
• In Re DES Cases · 789 F. Supp. 548
• Kaufman v. Eli Lilly & Co. · 99 A.D.2d 695
• Kaufman v. Eli Lilly & Co. · 65 N.Y. 449

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