7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 23 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 Safford Unified School District 1 v. Redding.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Safford Unified School District 1 v. Redding Anchor | green | “to be established clearly, however, there is no need that the 'very action in question previously been held unlawful.” | 4 |
| 2 | Walz ex rel. Walz v. Egg Harbor Tp. Bd. of Educ. | green | “the seasonal holiday parties were instructional activities, as much a part of the curriculum as 'show and tell' or art class.” | 4 |
| 3 | Illinois Ex Rel. McCollum v. Board of Ed. of School Dist. No. 71, Champaign Cty. | green | “hostility to religion religious teachings" is "at war with our national tradition as embodied in the first amendment's guaranty of the free exercise of religion” | 3 |
| 4 | Zamecnik v. Indian Prairie School Dist. No. 204 | green | “he younger the children, the more latitude the school authorities have in limiting expression.” | 3 |
| 5 | Megan Renee Hedges v. Wauconda Community Unit School District No. 118 | green | “ermitting individual students to pass out literature with religious messages, at times and places they could pass out literature with political or artistic themes, does not entail a . . . preference" and instead reflects "neutrality toward religion.” | 3 |
| 6 | Fleming v. Jefferson County School District R-1 | green | “hazelwood does not require educators' restrictions on school-sponsored speech to be viewpoint neutral.” | 3 |
| 7 | Nurre v. Whitehead | green | “there exists a delicate balance between protecting a student's right to speak freely and necessary actions taken by school administrators to avoid collision with the establishment clause.” | 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.