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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 51 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 Samuel "Wesley" McCabe and John Elson v. General Foods Corporation, Alan Moltz, Abner Ladson and Does 1-100.

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1 Samuel "Wesley" McCabe and John Elson v. General Foods Corporation, Alan Moltz, Abner Ladson and Does 1-100 Anchor
ca9 · 1987
green “the defendant seeking removal to the federal court is entitled to present the facts showing the joinder to be fraudulent.” 24
2 Samuel "Wesley" McCabe and John Elson v. General Foods Corporation, Alan Moltz, Abner Ladson and Does 1-100
ca9 · 1987
green “fraudulent joinder is a term of art.” 19
3 Weeping Hollow Avenue Trust v. Ashley Spencer
ca9 · 2016
green “party invoking federal court jurisdiction on the basis of fraudulent joinder bears a 'heavy burden” 8

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