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8 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 268 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 Mitcham v. City of Detroit.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitcham v. City of Detroit Anchor | green | “it is not enough for an appellant in his brief simply to announce a position or assert an error and then leave it up to this court to discover and rationalize the basis for his claims, or unravel and elaborate for him his arguments, and then search for authority either to sustai…” | 138 |
| 2 | Smith v. Foerster-Bolser Construction, Inc | green | “this court may overlook preservation requirements if the failure to consider the issue would result in manifest injustice, if consideration is necessary for a proper determination of the case, or if the issue involves a question of law and the facts necessary for its resolution …” | 56 |
| 3 | Chelsea Investment Group LLC v. City of Chelsea | green | “a finding is clearly erroneous if there is no evidentiary support for it or if this court is left with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.” | 32 |
| 4 | Hines v. Volkswagen of America, Inc | green | “generally, an issue is not properly preserved if it is not raised before, and addressed and decided by, the trial court.” | 15 |
| 5 | Chelsea Investment Group LLC v. City of Chelsea | green | “we review a trial court's findings of fact in a bench trial for clear error and its conclusions of law de novo.” | 14 |
| 6 | Ladd v. Motor City Plastics Co. | green | “the circuit court's findings of fact, if any, following a bench trial are reviewed for clear error, while its conclusions of law are reviewed de novo.” | 7 |
| 7 | Mills v. White Castle Systems, Inc | green | “we believe that the trial court had the opportunity to consider the issue and that it was sufficiently preserved for review.” | 3 |
| 8 | Smith v. Foerster-Bolser Construction, Inc | green | “need not review issues raised for the first time on appeal” | 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.