Smith v. Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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5 district · 1 state decisions

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1. “standing alone, case reports may or may not be a sufficient basis for expert opinion regarding causation,... Case reports are reports in medical journals describing clinical events involving one individual or a few individuals. They report unusual or new disease presentations, treatments, or manifestations, or suspected associations between two diseases, effects of medication, or external causes of diseases. Case reports lack controls and thus do not provide as much information as controlled epidemiological studies do. However, case reports are often all that is available on a particular subject because they usually do not require substantial, if any, funding to accomplish, and human exposure maybe rare and difficult to study. Causal attribution based on case studies must be regarded with caution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Beyer v. Anchor Insulation Co.

2. “[T]he concept of power is key because it's helpful in evaluating whether the study's outcome ... is exonerative or inconclusive.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Abilify (Aripiprazole) Prods. Liab. Litig.