colorable device
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 290 U.S. 179 - Bullard v. City of Cisco · 1933Most cited · 260 citing opinions
a colorable device to enable the transferrers, through the favor and name of the transferee, to invoke a federal jurisdiction which they could not invoke in their own right
How often courts cite the case defining “colorable device”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “colorable device” — 260 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.