6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 34 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 VanZandt v. State Employees' Retirement System.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VanZandt v. State Employees' Retirement System Anchor | green | “a finding is clearly erroneous where, after reviewing the record, this court is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.” | 14 |
| 2 | City of Romulus v. Department of Environmental Quality | green | “evidence is competent, material, and substantial if a reasoning mind would accept it as sufficient to support a conclusion.” | 7 |
| 3 | Beason v. Beason | green | “is plausible in light of the record viewed in its entirety.” | 4 |
| 4 | Hodge v. US Security Associates, Inc | green | “heard testimony . . . , reviewed all the evidence in the record and made findings of fact based on the credibility of witnesses and weight of the evidence.” | 3 |
| 5 | Braska v. Challenge Manufacturing Co. | green | “court's review of an administrative decision to determine whether the lower court applied correct legal principles and whether it misapprehended or misapplied the substantial evidence test to the agency's factual findings, which is essentially a clear-error standard of review.” | 3 |
| 6 | Braska v. Challenge Manufacturing Co. | green | “this court reviews a lower court's review of an administrative decision to determine whether the lower court applied correct legal principles and whether it misapprehended or misapplied the substantial evidence test to the agency's factual findings, which is essentially a clear-…” | 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.