United States v. Articles of Food & Drug’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.2d 743 · 1975
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably United States v. An Article of Drug Consisting of 4,680 Pails (1984), United States v. 225 Cartons, More or Less, of an Article or Drug (1989)
30 federal appellate · 3 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 Weinberger v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · Weinberger v. Bentex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“new combinations of well-known drugs constitute new drugs for purposes of the Act exactly because the effects of drugs in combinations are often not the sum of their parts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“generally recognized, among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate its safety, . . . to be safe under the conditions of its intended use”
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.