7 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 135 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 Henslee v. Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henslee v. Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co. Anchor | green | “wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.” | 98 |
| 2 | Morgan v. Illinois | green | “if you found the defendant guilty, would you automatically vote to impose the death penalty no matter what the facts are?” | 13 |
| 3 | Henslee v. Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co. | green | “wjisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.” | 6 |
| 4 | Balentine v. Aplt. v. Chester Water Auth | green | “against the critical importance of stability we must balance our duty as a court of last resort to refine or even abandon precedent when time and experience reveal its infirmity.” | 6 |
| 5 | Commonwealth v. Smith, W., Aplt. | green | “1) case-specific voir dire questions designed to determine whether jurors harbor some bias relative to critical facts to be demonstrated by trial evidence, and 2) interrogatories seeking to pre-commit jurors to a particular verdict.” | 4 |
| 6 | Ellington v. State | green | “line between permissible inquiry into 'prejudice' (a juror's fixed opinion that a certain result should automatically follow from some fact, regardless of other facts or legal instructions) and impermissible questions of 'pre-judgment' (speculation about or commitment to the app…” | 4 |
| 7 | Ellington v. State | green | “questions that ask whether or not jurors can consider or would vote to impose a life sentence or a death sentence in a case involving stated facts, either mitigating or aggravating, that are or might be actually at issue in the case that the jurors would hear” | 4 |
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.