Romano v. Romano’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Katz v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1984), Fishman v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. (1998)
16 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Osbourne v. United States · Stokes v. . Stokes · Wightman v. Wightman · Wheatland v. City of Boston · Walter v. . Walter
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule, which has rather wide acceptance, may be simply stated: If a statute creates a cause of action and attaches a time limit to its commencement, the time is an ingredient of the cause. If the cause was cognizable at common law or by other statute law, a statutory time limit is commonly taken as one of limitations and must be assert-ed by way of defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.