6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 33 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 Lostrangio v. Laingford.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lostrangio v. Laingford Anchor | green | “this approach results in functionally de novo review of the trial court's judgment.” | 8 |
| 2 | Tomlin v. McKenzie | green | “where no evidence is taken in support of the plea, the trial court, and the appellate court upon review, must rely solely upon the pleadings in resolving the issue presented.” | 8 |
| 3 | Lostrangio v. Laingford | green | “in doing so, the facts stated in the plaintiff's complaint are deemed true.” | 6 |
| 4 | Commonwealth v. Giddens | green | “a heedless and palpable violation of legal duty respecting the rights of others which amounts to the absence of slight diligence, or the want of even scant care.” | 5 |
| 5 | First Virginia Bank-Colonial v. Baker | green | “government can function only through its servants, and certain of those servants must enjoy the same immunity in the performance of their discretionary duties as the government enjoys.” | 4 |
| 6 | Burns v. Gagnon | green | “an individual working for an immune governmental entity is entitled to the protection of sovereign immunity under the common law, he is not immunized from suit” | 2 |
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.