6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 30 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 Greer v. Spock.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greer v. Spock Anchor | green | “the guarantees of the first amendment have never meant that people who want to propagandize protests or views have a constitutional right to do so whenever and however and wherever they please.” | 10 |
| 2 | Board of Airport Comm'rs of Los Angeles v. Jews for Jesus, Inc. | green | “the opportunity for abuse, especially where a statute has received a virtually open-ended interpretation, is self-evident.” | 4 |
| 3 | Aids Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc. v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | green | “the relatively murky status of the public forum doctrine” | 4 |
| 4 | Lebron v. Amtrak | green | “no matter what the scope of the forum, a governmental entity violates the first amendment when it bars display of political messages pursuant to a 'policy' that is vague, unwritten, unclear to those who must administer it, and inconsistently applied.” | 4 |
| 5 | Families Achieving Independence & Respect v. Nebraska Department of Social Services | green | “is not an effort to suppress the speaker's activity due to disagreement with the speaker's view.” | 4 |
| 6 | Families Achieving Independence & Respect v. Nebraska Department of Social Services | green | “neither the unwritten nature of the policy nor the substance of the policy itself afforded wusk or anyone else overly broad discretion in violation of the first amendment,” | 4 |
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.