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8 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 241 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 Snyder v. Harris.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snyder v. Harris Anchor | red | “two or more plaintiffs unite to enforce a single title or right in which they have a common and undivided interest.” | 130 |
| 2 | Snyder v. Harris | red | “the separate and distinct claims of two or more plaintiffs cannot be aggregated in order to satisfy the jurisdictional amount requirement.” | 59 |
| 3 | IMED Corp. v. Systems Engineering Assoc. | green | “the fundamental rule of statutory construction is to ascertain and give effect to the intent of the legislature in enacting the statute.” | 19 |
| 4 | Breakman v. AOL LLC | green | “28,451 consumers in the district of columbia.” | 8 |
| 5 | Urbino v. Orkin Servs. of California, Inc. | green | “whether the penalties recoverable on behalf of all aggrieved employees may be considered in their totality to clear the diversity jurisdictional hurdle.” | 8 |
| 6 | National Consumers League v. Flowers Bakeries, LLC | green | “calculating the amount in controversy in that way . . . runs afoul of the non-aggregation principal that 'the separate and distinct claims of two or more plaintiffs cannot be aggregated in order to satisfy the jurisdictional amount requirement' except 'in cases in which two or m…” | 6 |
| 7 | Davis v. Orme | green | “that the wife, children, or next of kin, of one who had improvidently lost his property at the card-table, or on the racecourse, might re-possess themselves thereof.” | 6 |
| 8 | Beshears v. K-Mart Corp. | green | “statutes are to be considered as a whole, and every word given effect if possible.” | 5 |
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.