Thomas v. Guardsmark, LLC’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.3d 531 · 2007
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Hukic v. Aurora Loan Services (2009), Medical Assurance Co. v. Hellman (2010)
7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Flaherty v. Gas Research Institute · 164 Ill. 2d 29 - Zimmerman v. Buchheit of Sparta, Inc. · Cosgrove v. Bartolotta · Barron v. Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appellant's naked declaration that there is diversity of citizenship is never sufficient,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Consequently, an LLC's jurisdictional statement must identify the citizenship of each of its members as of the date the complaint or notice of removal was filed, and, if those members have members, the citizenship of those members as well.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n Illinois court (and consequently, a federal court applying substantive Illinois law) need never go beyond step one of the Landgraf test.”
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.