7 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 29 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 Rhodes v. Commonwealth.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rhodes v. Commonwealth Anchor | green | “grounded in the fifth amendment guarantee against double jeopardy.” | 5 |
| 2 | Lee v. Commonwealth | green | “here, . . . it appears from the express language of the stipulation that the judgment of dismissal, like the jury's verdict in ashe, was based on insufficiency of the evidence that lee operated his vehicle on the day in question, the particular ground assigned by defendant in hi…” | 4 |
| 3 | Rhodes v. Commonwealth | green | “the party seeking the protection of collateral estoppel carries the burden of showing that the verdict in the prior action necessarily decided the precise issue he seeks to now preclude.” | 4 |
| 4 | Peterson v. Commonwealth | green | “a general district court is without jurisdiction to try felony cases or accept pleas to felony charges.” | 4 |
| 5 | CA JONES v. Commonwealth | green | “examine the record of a prior proceeding, taking into account the pleadings, evidence, charge, and other relevant matter, and conclude whether a rational trier of fact could have grounded its verdict upon an issue other than that which the defendant seeks to foreclose from consi…” | 4 |
| 6 | CA JONES v. Commonwealth | green | “suffice to say, the numerous attempts to invoke the doctrine have met with little success, a result that was easily predictable.” | 4 |
| 7 | CA JONES v. Commonwealth | green | “the rare case where it was possible to determine with certainty what the trier of fact in the earlier prosecution had decided.” | 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.