Martin v. Hacker’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Gourdine v. Crews (2008), 432 F. Supp. 2d 514 - Colacicco v. Apotex, Inc. (2006)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 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. § 355 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be overcome if, when read as a whole, the warning conveys a meaning as to the consequences that is unmistakable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is fulfilled by giving adequate warning through the prescribing physician, not directly to the patient.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“direct, unequivocal and sufficiently forceful to convey the risk.”
3 later decisions 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.