necessary party
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 215 U.S. 33 - Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. · 1909Most cited · 945 citing opinions
distinguished
while [the absent party] is a necessary party, in the sense that he has an interest in the controversy, his interest is not that of an indispensable party, without whose presence a court of equity cannot do justice between the parties before it, and whose interest must be so affected by any decree to be rendered as to oust the jurisdiction of the court.
How often courts cite the case defining “necessary party”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “necessary party” — 939 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.