Indianapolis v. Chase Nat. 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”
• recognizing a “duty . . . to look beyond the pleadings and arrange the parties according to their sides in the dispute”
• establishing a general test for determining the appropriate alignment 6 of parties in an action where federal jurisdiction is based on diversity
• courts have a \duty” to \look beyond the pleadings and arrange the parties according to their sides in the dispute”
• if parties are not aligned according to their real interests, courts must realign them according to such interests before determining if diversity exists
• all parties of one side of controversy must be citizens of different states from all parties on other side

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).