5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 19 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 Montara Owners Assn. v. La Noue Development, LLC.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montara Owners Assn. v. La Noue Development, LLC Anchor | green | “the context for interpreting a statute's text includes the preexisting common law, and we presume that the legislature was aware of that existing law.” | 7 |
| 2 | Josephs v. Burns | green | “it is clear that the legislative committees which were dealing with the problem of long delayed tort litigation brought about by lack of discovery considered the possibility of defining the time when a cause of action 'accrued' as a response to the berry decision.” | 3 |
| 3 | State v. McNally | green | “the phrase 'passive resistance' is a term of art that has the same meaning whether considered in a lay or a legal con- text.” | 3 |
| 4 | Oak Lodge Sanitary District v. General Insurance | green | “we prefer not to engage in a definitional exercise which might cause the words 'work' and 'project' to be regarded as terms of art. such a result could create unforeseen mischief for future litigants and is not necessary to a decision in this case.” | 3 |
| 5 | Marshall v. PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP | green | “we cannot ignore the fact that the legisla- ture chose to forgo the broader language previously adopted in ors 12.110(1) when it enacted ors 12.115(1) and instead adopted narrower language.” | 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.