7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 32 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 United States v. Felix Brizuela, Jr..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States v. Felix Brizuela, Jr. Anchor | green | “an error is harmless if we can say with fair assurance, after pondering all that happened without stripping the erroneous action from the whole, that the judgment was not substantially swayed by the error.” | 8 |
| 2 | United States v. Terrick Robinson | green | “we will uphold the jury's verdict if, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, the verdict is supported by substantial evidence.” | 6 |
| 3 | Counterman v. Colorado | green | “serious expressions conveying that a speaker means to commit an act of unlawful violence.” | 5 |
| 4 | Snyder's-Lance, Inc. v. Frito-Lay North America, Inc. | green | “only when statutory text is ambiguous do we consider other indicia of congressional intent such as the legislative history.” | 4 |
| 5 | United States v. Donald Bush | green | “rest upon a clearly erroneous factual finding,” | 3 |
| 6 | Wilhen Hill Barrientos v. Corecivic, Inc. | green | “evince no intent on the part of congress to restrict the application of the statute to particular actors or particular victims” | 3 |
| 7 | United States v. Michael Hoover | green | “is inextricably intertwined with the evidence regarding the charged offense because it forms an integral and natural part of the witness's accounts of the circumstances surrounding the offenses for which the defendant was indicted.” | 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.