7 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 36 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 Reata Construction Corp. v. City of Dallas.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reata Construction Corp. v. City of Dallas Anchor | green | “a lack of immunity may hamper governmental functions by requiring tax resources to be used for defending lawsuits and paying judgments rather than using those resources for their intended purposes.” | 10 |
| 2 | State v. Oakley | green | “a statute shall not be construed as a waiver of sovereign immunity unless the waiver is effected by clear and unambiguous language.” | 8 |
| 3 | Hartford Underwriters Insurance Co. v. Hafley | green | “when a statutory prerequisite to suit is such that it affects only venue, without making any substantive change in the court's inherent power, it should not be held jurisdictional.” | 5 |
| 4 | Dallas County v. Hughes | green | “a prerequisite is something that is required beforehand.” | 4 |
| 5 | State v. Oakley | green | “be sued in her own courts without her consent, and then only in the manner indicated by that consent.” | 3 |
| 6 | State v. Oakley | green | “the legislature necessarily understood that state agencies would be sued in court by persons exercising that right” | 3 |
| 7 | Grounds v. Tolar Independent School District | red | “statutory prerequisites for review” | 3 |
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.