7 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 21 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 South Delta Water Agency v. United States.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Delta Water Agency v. United States Anchor | green | “for the administration of such rights” | 3 |
| 2 | Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation v. Mark Simonich | green | “in light of the state court's rulings.” | 3 |
| 3 | Montana Power Company v. .Carey | green | “contradict the spirit and purpose underlying the water use act.” | 3 |
| 4 | State Ex Rel. Greely v. Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation | green | “consists of the right to prevent other appropriators from depleting the stream waters below a protected level in any area where the non-consumptive right applies.” | 3 |
| 5 | State Ex Rel. Greely v. Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation | green | “develop, preserve, produce or sustain food and other resources of the reservation, to make it liveable,” | 3 |
| 6 | State Ex Rel. Greely v. Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation | green | “irrigate all the practically irrigable acreage on the reservation.” | 3 |
| 7 | United States v. Alexander | green | “the hellgate treaty impliedly reserved all waters on the flathead reservation to the indians” | 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.