Hertz Corp. v. Friend

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a corporation’s principal place of business is typically its where its headquarters is located
• rejecting other tests and endorsing the “nerve center” approach to determine a corporation’s principal place of business and thus its citizenship for the purposes of diversity jurisdiction
• a corporation’s principal place of business is its “nerve center,” usually its main headquarters
• “A corporation’s ‘nerve center,’ usually its main headquarters, is a single place.”
• discussing the special rule for corporations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).