minimal diversity
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 386 U.S. 523 - State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Tashire · 1967Most cited · 1,033 citing opinions
uniformly construed to require only 'minimal diversity,' that is, diversity of citizenship between two or more claimants, without regard to the circumstance that other rival claimants may be co-citizens.
How often courts cite the case defining “minimal diversity”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “minimal diversity” — 1,027 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.