City of Indianapolis v. Chase National Bank

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that it is the “duty ... of the lower federal courts to look beyond the pleadings, and arrange the parties according to their sides in the dispute”
• re-aligning one of the defendants in a diversity action as a plaintiff because its interests were aligned with those of the original plaintiff
• discussing congressional policy behind diversity jurisdiction requirements, which requires federal courts to “scrupulously confine their own jurisdiction to the precise limits which the statute has defined”
• courts have a \duty” to \look beyond the pleadings and arrange the parties according to their sides in the dispute”
• all parties of one side of controversy must be citizens of different states from all parties on other side
• a party aligned in interest with a true plaintiff should not be permitted to remove

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).