---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2108"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2108"
heading: "Proof of amount in controversy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2108"
units:
  - "Part V — Procedure"
  - "Chapter 133 — Review—miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §2108. Proof of amount in controversy


Where the power of any court of appeals to review a case depends upon the amount or value in controversy, such amount or value, if not otherwise satisfactorily disclosed upon the record, may be shown and ascertained by the oath of a party to the case or by other competent evidence.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 963.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 231 (Feb. 13, 1925, ch. 229, § 9, 43 Stat. 941).

Words “or in the Supreme Court” were omitted. Section 7 of the 1925 act containing such words related to review by the Supreme Court of the United States of decisions of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands and designated a certain jurisdictional amount. Such section 7 has now become obsolete, in view of the recognition of the independence of the Philippines, title 48 U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 1240, Territories and Insular Possessions, and there is no other case wherein the power of the Supreme Court to review depends on the amount or value in controversy.