700 F. Supp. 877 - Mitchell v. Iolab Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
3
states following
January 1995
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 301 (Animal Drug Amendments of 1968) · 21 U.S.C. § 360K (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)
Relies on Smith v. Pingree
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.
“No informed consent, whether oral or written, may include any exculpatory language through which the subject or the representative is made to waive or appear to waive any of the subjects, legal rights, or releases or appear to release the investigator, the sponsor, the institution, or its agents from liability for negligence.”
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.