8 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 24 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 Brown v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Anchor | green | “factual issues and not causes of action were decided in phase i.” | 5 |
| 2 | Fayerweather v. Ritch | green | “in determining what is due process of law, regard must be had to substance, not to form.” | 4 |
| 3 | Leonardo Rodriguez-Mora v. John R. Baker, U.S. Marshal | green | “the reaches of the due process clauses of the fourteenth and fifth amendments are coextensive.” | 3 |
| 4 | R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Martin | green | “every engle plaintiff must trot out the class action trial transcript to prove applicability of the phase i findings.” | 3 |
| 5 | Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Douglas | green | “claim preclusion, unlike issue preclusion, has no 'actually decided' requirement but, instead, focuses on whether a party is attempting to relitigate the same claim, without regard to the arguments or evidence that were presented to the first jury that decided the claim.” | 3 |
| 6 | Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Douglas | green | “similarly, arguments concerning the class's negligence, warranty, fraud, and conspiracy claims included whether the engle defendants failed to address the health effects and addictive nature of cigarettes, manipulated nicotine levels to make cigarettes more addictive, and concea…” | 3 |
| 7 | R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Martin | green | “trot out the class action trial transcript to prove applicability of the phase i findings” | 2 |
| 8 | American Railway Express Co. v. Kentucky | green | “it is firmly established that a merely erroneous decision given by a state court in the regular course of judicial proceedings does not deprive the unsuccessful party of property without due process of law” | 1 |
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.