Routman v. Automatic Data Processing, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
873 F.2d 970 · 1989
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. v. Elvisly Yours, Inc. (1991), Employers Insurance of Wausau v. Petroleum Specialties, Inc. (1995)
34 federal appellate · 1 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Portland Retail Druggists Ass'n v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan · Harrington v. Vandalia-Butler Board of Education · Management Investors v. United Mine Workers
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be afforded notice and a reasonable opportunity to respond to all issues to be considered by the court.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where a district court is contemplating entering sua sponte summary judgment against one of the parties, that party is entitled to unequivocal notice of the court's intentions.”
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.