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7 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 194 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 Lorillard v. Pons.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lorillard v. Pons Anchor | green | “congress is presumed to be aware of an administrative or judicial interpretation of a statute and to adopt that interpretation when it re-enacts a statute without change.” | 78 |
| 2 | Kelly v. Robinson | green | “in expounding a statute, we must not be guided by a single sentence or member of a sentence, but look to the provisions of the whole law, and to its object and policy.” | 29 |
| 3 | King v. St. Vincent's Hospital | green | “words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition; they have only a communal existence; and not only does the meaning of each interpenetrate the other, but all in their aggregate take their purport from the setting in which they are used.” | 28 |
| 4 | Greyhound Corp. v. Mt. Hood Stages, Inc. | green | “the starting point in every case involving construction of a statute is the language itself.” | 23 |
| 5 | United States v. Menasche | green | “the cardinal principle of statutory construction is to save and not to destroy.” | 17 |
| 6 | Greyhound Corp. v. Mt. Hood Stages, Inc. | green | “logic and precedent dictate that 'the starting point in every case involving construction of a statute is the language itself.” | 2 |
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.