7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 27 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 People v. Lockridge.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People v. Lockridge Anchor | green | “as we have stated many times, 'shall' indicates a mandatory directive.” | 8 |
| 2 | People v. Carpentier | green | “oth the michigan judiciary singularly, and the citizenry whose collective rights and protections it is obligated to protect, have a compelling interest in championing the finality of criminal judgments.” | 4 |
| 3 | People v. Pratt | green | “case law is clear that a prosecutor has the discretion to prove his case by whatever admissible evidence he chooses.” | 3 |
| 4 | State Highway Commission v. Vanderkloot | green | “certainly the popular and common understanding of the word 'shall' is that it denotes mandatoriness.” | 3 |
| 5 | Kwame Ajamu v. City of Cleveland | green | “the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment is also violated when evidence is knowingly fabricated and a reasonable likelihood exists that the false evidence would have affected the decision of the jury.” | 3 |
| 6 | Kahler v. Kansas | green | “the question is whether a rule of criminal responsibility is so old and venerable-so entrenched in the central values of our legal system-as to prevent a state from ever choosing another.” | 3 |
| 7 | Robert Walden v. David Shinn | green | “if the police did not arrange suggestive circumstances leading the witness to identify a particular person as the perpetrator, the inquiry ends.” | 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.