Healy v. Ratta

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[t]he controversy here is that defined by the pleadings, and the matter in controversy does not embrace more than the right asserted”
• refusing to consider the collateral effects of the judgment on other claims or other plaintiffs in determining the jurisdictional amount
• stating that “the collateral effect of the decree, by virtue of stare decisis, upon other and distinct controversies may not be considered in ascertaining whether the jurisdictional amount is involved, even though their decision turns on the same question of law”
• finding that any “collateral effect” of a judgment “upon other and distinct controversies, may not be considered in ascertaining whether the jurisdictional amount is involved, even though their decision turns on the same question of law”
• finding that any “collateral effect” of a judgment “upon other and distinct controversies, may not be considered in ascertaining whether the jurisdictional amount is involved, even though their decision turns on the same question of law”
• refusing to consider the collateral effects of the judgment on other claims or other plaintiffs in determining the jurisdictional amount

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).