In Re Accutane Products Liability’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
Relationships
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · McClain v. Metabolife International, Inc. · Ohio v. United States Department of the Interior · Black · 243 F. Supp. 2d 672 - Newton v. Roche Laboratories, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“[Adverse event] reports are unreliable as proof of causation because, in general, the events were not observed in such a way as to rule out coincidence or other potential causes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“difficulty with inferring human causation from animal studies is that the high doses customarily used in animal studies require consideration of the dose-response relationship and whether a threshold no-effect dose exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“differences in absorption, metabolism, and other factors may result in interspecies variation in responses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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