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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 15 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from MALYUTIN v. Rice.

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1 MALYUTIN v. Rice Anchor
dcd · 2009
green “federal district court's initial obligation is to ascertain its subject matter jurisdiction.” 9
2 SAI v. Clinton
dcd · 2011
green “the plaintiffs burden to prove subject matter jurisdiction by a preponderance of the evidence.” 3
3 Mostofi v. Napolitano
dcd · 2012
green “need not accept as true a legal conclusion couched as a factual allegation, nor inferences that are unsupported by the facts set out in the complaint.” 3

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