Romer v. Leary’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.2d 186 · 1970
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio (1980), 10 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1331, 10 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 10,294 Selene Weise v. Syracuse University, Jo Davis Mortenson v. Syracuse University (1975)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Gardner v. Broderick · Uniformed Sanitation Men Association v. Commissioner of Sanitation of City of New York · American Safety Equipment Corp. v. J. P. Maguire & Co. · Donald A. Swan v. Board of Higher Education of the City of New York by Gustave G. Rosenberg, Its Chairman, George A. Pierson, and Margaret v. Kiely · Luckenbach Steamship Co. v. United States
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in which the issues involved would have been litigated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the specific relief of a mandatory injunction to reinstate (him) and a damage award for back pay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Walsh
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.