United States v. Evers’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2015
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 21 U.S.C. § 352 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)
Relies on Whalen v. Roe · Doe v. Bolton · United States v. Moore · Linder v. United States · United States v. Collier
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The so-called heavy metals [include] ... lead, cadmium, zinc, mercury and iron and, while aluminum is not a heavy metal, aluminum may be considered as such for the purposes hereinafter mentioned as it tends to some extent to be chelated by the processes concerned.” U.S. v. Evers, 453 F.Supp. 1141 , 1143 n. 4 (1978). 5 . During chelation therapy, a patient receives intravenous injections of the chelating drug, usually disodium ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“offered chelation therapy using Calcium EDTA as his chelating agent to arteriosclerosis patients at Ra-Mar Clinic. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the reduction of blood levels and depot stores of lead in lead poisoning (acute and chronic) and lead encephalopathy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.