Romano v. Bible’s Empirical Analysis
169 F.3d 1182 · 1999
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Vestar Development Ii, Llc, an Arizona Limited Liability v. General Dynamics Corporation, a Corporation (2001), Marica Ove
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Stump v. Sparkman · Hafer v. Melo
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the broader public interest in having people perform these functions without fear of having to personally defend their actions in civil damages lawsuits.”
2 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.