6 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 18 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 Worthen v. State.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Worthen v. State Anchor | green | “this court will take judicial notice of public and private acts of the legislature and the legislative journals to determine whether an act was constitutionally passed and for the purpose of ascertaining what was done by the legislature.” | 3 |
| 2 | Cenarrusa v. Andrus | green | “to bring, carry, or send back; as, to return a borrowed book; to return a hired horse,” | 3 |
| 3 | Cohn v. Kingsley | green | “is imposed upon all public officers by the solemn obligations of the official oath, which obligations cannot be discharged by disobeying, ignoring, and setting at naught the plain provisions of the constitution, but only by obedience thereto.” | 3 |
| 4 | Cohn v. Kingsley | green | “if either house can disregard one plain provision of the constitution, then it may disregard all of its provisions, and the constitution, instead of being the fundamental law of the land, is a mere sham, an idle mockery, a nullity.” | 3 |
| 5 | Cohn v. Kingsley | green | “it is the imperative duty of the court, when the issue is before it, to look to the journals of the legislature, and see if, in passing the statute in question, the legislature proceeded in the manner provided by the constitution.” | 3 |
| 6 | Martin v. Camas County ex rel. Board of Commissioners | green | “has never held that increased competition alone is sufficient to confer standing.” | 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.