6 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 243 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 Robert A. Bieber v. Department of the Army.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert A. Bieber v. Department of the Army Anchor | green | “a deep-seated favoritism or antagonism that would make fair judgment impossible.” | 160 |
| 2 | Whitmore v. Department of Labor | green | “evidence only clearly and convincingly supports a conclusion when it does so in the aggregate considering all the pertinent evidence in the record, and despite the evidence that fairly detracts from that conclusion.” | 41 |
| 3 | Whitmore v. Department of Labor | green | “those responsible for the agency's performance overall may well be motivated to retaliate even if they are not directly implicated by the disclosures, and even if they do not know the whistleblower personally, as the criticism reflects on them in their capacities as managers and…” | 17 |
| 4 | Whitmore v. Department of Labor | green | “the absence of any evidence relating to carr factor three can effectively remove that factor from the analysis,” | 14 |
| 5 | Robert A. Bieber v. Department of the Army | green | “deep-seated favoritism or antagonism that would make fair judgment impossible.” | 6 |
| 6 | Arthur Fisher v. Department of the Interior | green | “refusing to obey an order that would require the individual to violate a law, rule, or regulation.” | 5 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.