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6 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 23 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 Greenwood v. United States.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greenwood v. United States Anchor | green | “the uncertainty of diagnosis in this field and the tentativeness of professional judgment.” | 8 |
| 2 | Sowers v. Wells | green | “while the authorities are not in complete harmony in defining the term 'public office,' or 'public officer,' it universally has been held that the right to exercise some definite portion of sovereign power constitutes an indispensable attribute of 'public office.” | 4 |
| 3 | Kern v. Miller | green | “(b) the immunities established by this section shall apply to all the members of the classes described, whether the same are in existence on the effective date of this act or become members of any such class after the effective date of this act.” | 3 |
| 4 | Davis v. Lhim | green | “all psychiatrists, whether employed by a state institution or private facility, are subject to a duty to exercise competent, professional judgment in all aspects of treatment of their patients, including the decision to discharge a patient from custodial care.” | 3 |
| 5 | Jagger v. Green | neutral | “since the plaintiff is not one of the appointive officers or employees excepted from the operation of the civil service act, he is entitled to claim the benefit of its provisions.” | 3 |
| 6 | Miller v. Board of County Commissioners | neutral | “in 53 a.l.r. 595 it is stated: " 'it may be stated, as a general rule deducible from the cases discussing the question, that a position is a public office when it is created by law, with duties cast on the incumbent which involve an exercise of some portion of the sovereign powe…” | 2 |
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.