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5 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 19 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 Brooks v. New Hampshire Supreme Court.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brooks v. New Hampshire Supreme Court Anchor | green | “to implicate due process, claims of general institutional bias must be harnessed to a further showing, such as a potential conflict of interest, or a pecuniary stake in the outcome of the litigation.” | 4 |
| 2 | Kentucky West Virginia Gas Company v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission | green | “abstention is a judicially created doctrine under which a federal court will decline to exercise its jurisdiction so that a state court or agency will have the opportunity to decide the matters at issue.” | 4 |
| 3 | Kentucky West Virginia Gas Company v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission | green | “represents an extraordinary and narrow exception to the 'virtually unflagging obligation of the federal courts to exercise the jurisdiction given them.” | 4 |
| 4 | Chiropractic America v. Lavecchia | green | “are loosely gathered under discrete concepts of abstention named after leading supreme court cases,” | 4 |
| 5 | Chez Sez Iii Corp. v. Township Of Union | green | “only in the exceptional circumstances where the order to the parties to repair to the state court would clearly serve an important countervailing interest.” | 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.