McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the party seeking to invoke the jurisdiction of the court must in his pleading allege the facts essential to establish jurisdiction
• holding that “[i]f [plaintiffs] allegations of jurisdictional facts are challenged by his adversary in any appropriate manner, he must support them by competent proof’
• holding that the party seeking to invoke the jurisdiction of the court must in his pleading allege the facts essential to establish jurisdiction
• holding that the party asserting the federal court’s jurisdiction “must carry throughout the litigation the burden of showing that he is properly in court”
• holding that “[i]f [plaintiffs] allegations of jurisdictional facts are challenged by his adversary in any appropriate manner, he must support them by competent proof.”
• holding that “the party alleging jurisdiction [must] justify his allegations by a preponderance of evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).