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7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 25 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 Nelson v. Johnson.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nelson v. Johnson Anchor | green | “in construing statutes, we consider the context of the statutes and the purposes for which they were enacted.” | 5 |
| 2 | State v. Gagnon | green | “a search occurs when the government intrudes upon an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy.” | 4 |
| 3 | Herring v. Lisbon Partners | neutral | “statutes must be construed as a whole and harmonized to give meaning to related provisions, and are interpreted in context to give meaning and effect to every word, phrase, and sentence.” | 4 |
| 4 | State v. Holly | green | “a defendant may not be charged with possession of a controlled substance if he has 'a valid prescription or order of a practitioner while acting in the course of the practitioner's professional practice.” | 3 |
| 5 | State v. Winkler | green | “murray instructs that . . . the warrant is nonetheless tainted if the illegally obtained facts prompted the officers' decision to seek the warrant.” | 3 |
| 6 | State v. Hart | neutral | “an emergency situation requiring swift action to prevent imminent danger to life or serious damage to property, or to forestall the imminent escape of a suspect or destruction of evidence.” | 3 |
| 7 | State v. Nickel | green | “will not be reversed if, after the conflicts in the testimony are resolved in favor of affirmance, there is sufficient competent evidence fairly capable of supporting the . . . court's findings, and the decision is not contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.” | 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.