Complete diversity
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 7 U.S. 267 - Strawbridge v. Curtiss · 1806Most cited · 1,594 citing opinions
Strawbridge rule
The court understands these expressions to mean that each distinct interest should be represented by persons, all of whom are entitled to sue, or may be sued, in the federal courts. That is, that where the interest is joint, each of the persons concerned in that interest must be competent to sue, or liable to be sued, in those courts.
How often courts cite the case defining “Complete diversity”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Complete diversity” — 1,580 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.