7 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 27 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 Bank of America, N.A. v. Schulte.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bank of America, N.A. v. Schulte Anchor | green | “under the pretext of construction, we may not extend a statute, expand a statute, or change its meaning.” | 7 |
| 2 | Rolfe State Bank v. Charles a. Gunderson and Gloria K. Gunderson, Margaret Gunderson Moore, Clara Gunderson Hoover and Harold M. Hoover, Helen D. Gunderson, Deane C. Gunderson and Martha G. Carlson | green | “should be circumspect regarding narrow claims of plain meaning and must strive to make sense of a statute as a whole.” | 5 |
| 3 | Drake v. Menczer | green | “actual damages together with reasonable attorneys' fees.” | 3 |
| 4 | Staves v. Johnson | green | “bad faith' is an often inconsistently used phrase that has different meanings in different legal contexts.” | 3 |
| 5 | State Water Resources Board v. Howard | green | “shift the responsibility to cure existing or past violations of the applicable housing and building codes to the tenants” | 3 |
| 6 | Austrum v. Federal Cleaning Contractors, Inc. | green | “bad faith' is an often inconsistently used phrase that has different meanings in different legal contexts.” | 3 |
| 7 | Bank of America, N.A. v. Schulte | green | “words or phrases that are undefined in the statute or for which there is no established legal meaning are given their common, ordinary meaning in the context within which they are used.” | 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.