6 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 26 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 Escobar v. Escobar.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Escobar v. Escobar Anchor | green | “the judicial or clerical question becomes a question of law only after the trial court factually determines whether it previously rendered judgment and the judgment's contents.” | 9 |
| 2 | Comet Aluminum Company v. Dibrell | green | “rendition is the judicial act by which the court settles and declares the decision of the law upon the matters at issue.” | 4 |
| 3 | Comet Aluminum Company v. Dibrell | green | “the judicial act by which the court settles and declares the decision of the law upon the matters at issue.” | 4 |
| 4 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas v. County of Dallas Tax Collector | green | “a substantive change in a judgment results from the correction of a judicial error, not a clerical one.” | 3 |
| 5 | America's Favorite Chicken Co. v. Galvan | green | “the judgment as entered must differ from the judgment as rendered; a nunc pro tunc judgment will only serve to ensure that the judgment as rendered is actually entered of record.” | 3 |
| 6 | America's Favorite Chicken Co. v. Galvan | green | “the signing of the nonsuit 'with prejudice' was a ministerial act, which required no judicial reasoning, and could thus be corrected by a judgment nunc pro tunc.” | 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.