Boone v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2022
3 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hanna v. Plumer · Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & WareHouse Co. · Holloway v. Florida · Pony Creek Cattle Co. v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.