Boone v. Citigroup, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
416 F.3d 382 · 2005
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Briscoe, One Star v. Sisters of St. Francis (2008)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 49 U.S.C. § 20101 (Federal Railroad Safety Authorization Act of 1994)
Relies on American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Crown, Cork & Seal Co. v. Parker · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Cockrell · Smallwood v. Illinois Central Railroad · Travis v. Irby
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[0]nly” where the showing that there is no reasonable basis for predicting state law would allow the plaintiff to recover against the resident defendant is such that the same showing “equally” and “necessarily” “compels” the conclusion that recovery is precluded against “all” non-resident defendants, then there is no improper joinder, but simply a wholly meritless suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that there is no reasonable basis for predicting that state law would allow the plaintiff to recover against the in-state defendant necessarily compels the same result for the non[-]resident defendant.”
1 later decision 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.