5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 35 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 Astoria Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Solimino.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astoria Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Solimino Anchor | green | “congress is understood to legislate against a background of common-law adjudicatory principles.” | 17 |
| 2 | United States v. Chris Parker | green | “projected to the jury an appearance of advocacy or partiality.” | 6 |
| 3 | UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles H. KEATING, Jr., Charles H. Keating, III, Defendants-Appellees | green | “during deliberations and immediately after the first of several votes were taken on the issue of causation, one of the jurors announced that this was mrs. rhodes second trial on the very issues that we were to decide and that she had lost in the first trial.” | 5 |
| 4 | Wyser-Pratte Management Co., Inc. v. Telxon Corporation, Pricewaterhousecoopers, LLP | green | “the purposes of american pipe tolling are not furthered when plaintiffs file independent actions before decision on the issue of class certification, but are when plaintiffs delay until the certification issue has been decided.” | 4 |
| 5 | In Re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation | green | “applying the tolling doctrine to separate actions filed prior to class certification would create the very inefficiency that american pipe sought to prevent.” | 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.