removable suit
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 73 U.S. 139 - West v. Aurora City · 1867Most cited · 116 citing opinions
A suit removable from a State court must be a suit regularly commenced by a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought, by process served upon a defendant who is a citizen of another State, and who, if he does not elect to remove, is bound to submit to the jurisdiction of the State court.
How often courts cite the case defining “removable suit”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “removable suit” — 116 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.