spurious class action
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 394 U.S. 332 - Snyder v. Harris · 1969Most cited · 2,109 citing opinions
Spurious class actions were in essence merely a form of permissive joinder in which parties with separate and distinct claims were allowed to litigate those claims in a single suit simply because the different claims involved common questions of law or fact. In such cases aggregation was not permitted: each plaintiff had to show that his individual claim exceeded the jurisdictional amount.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “spurious class action” — 2,096 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.