8 canonical passages across 7 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 Hughes v. Board of Architectural Examiners.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hughes v. Board of Architectural Examiners Anchor | green | “a statute is regarded as ambiguous if it is capable of two constructions, both of which are reasonable.” | 6 |
| 2 | Bradford v. Southern California Petroleum Corp. | green | “they cannot have failed to obtain a more favorable judgment or award than a rejected section 998 offer when the settlement (and the offer preceding it) subsumes, supersedes, and renders that offer a legal nullity.” | 3 |
| 3 | Horan v. Roan | green | “any claims that arise out of or relate to the facts and circumstances described in the complaint or relating to the sale of the vehicle or relating to the service and repair history of the subject vehicle.” | 3 |
| 4 | Wohlgemuth v. Caterpillar Inc. | green | “shall be allowed by the court to recover as part of the judgment a sum equal to the aggregate amount of costs and expenses, including attorney's fees based on actual time expended, determined by the court to have been reasonably incurred by the buyer in connection with the comme…” | 3 |
| 5 | Curtis Eng'g Corp. v. Superior Court of San Diego Cnty. | green | “we presume the words were intended to be understood ' "in their ordinary sense and, consequently, we may refer to those words' dictionary definitions to ascertain their ordinary, usual meaning.” | 3 |
| 6 | Licudine v. Cedars-Sinai Med. Ctr. | green | “in light of this focus on the reasonableness of the offeror's conduct in making the section 998 offer (which makes sense because the issue is the validity of the offer in the first place), whether the offeree acted reasonably in rejecting that offer is irrelevant.” | 3 |
| 7 | Chester Upland School District v. Pennsylvania | green | “settlement avoids labeling one side as the winner and the other side as the loser” | 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.