5 canonical passages across 5 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 United States v. Lanier.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States v. Lanier Anchor | green | “clarity at the requisite level may be supplied by judicial gloss on an otherwise uncertain statute” | 6 |
| 2 | Skilling v. United States | green | “it has long been our practice, ... before striking a federal statute as vague, to consider whether the prescription is amenable to a limiting construction.” | 5 |
| 3 | United States v. Ronnie Dean Purdy | green | “purdy's drug use ... was sufficient to put him on notice that he fell within the statutory definition of 'unlawful user.” | 5 |
| 4 | Dixon v. United States | green | “unless the text of the statute dictates a different result, the term 'knowingly' merely requires proof of knowledge of the facts that constitute the offense” | 4 |
| 5 | United States v. Davis | green | “a case-specific approach would avoid the vagueness problems that doomed the statutes in johnson and dimaya” | 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.