Romani v. Shearson’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 875 · 1991
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 100 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 228 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Watterson v. Page (1993), Branch v. Tunnell (1994)
57 federal appellate · 100 district · 5 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Luce v. Edelstein · DiVittorio v. Equidyne Extractive Industries, Inc. · Johnston v. Holiday Inns, Inc. · Wool v. Tandem Computers Inc.
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 228 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allegations of fraud are explicitly or, as in this case, implicitly, based only on information and belief, the complaint must set forth the source of the information and the reasons for the belief.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“a plaintiff with a largely groundless claim will bring a suit and conduct extensive discovery in the hopes of obtaining an increased settlement.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“not convert the motion to dismiss into a motion for summary judgment.”
4 later decisions 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.