In Re: David A. Kessler, M.D.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2020
4 district ·
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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · United States v. Nixon · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An 'off-label' use of an approved product is a specific use for which that product has not been approved by the FDA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 98-1063
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.