Romain v. Shear’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 1416 · 1986
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Lambert v. Genesee Hospital (1993), Crawford v. Runyon (1994)
86 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 29 U.S.C. § 633A (§ 15 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 101 (Accountant, Compliance, and Enforcement Staffing Act of 2003) · 5 U.S.C. § 105 · 5 U.S.C. § 7702 · 5 U.S.C. § 7703
Relies on Cort v. Ash · Lehman v. Nakshian · Oscar Mayer & Co. v. Evans · Schiavone v. Fortune · Bolker v. Commissioner
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when review is necessary to prevent a miscarriage of justice or to preserve the integrity of the judicial process;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the issue is purely one of law and the necessary fact are fully developed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“On the discrimination claim, the petitioner”
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.