6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 17 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 Sherwin-Williams Co. v. Crotty.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sherwin-Williams Co. v. Crotty Anchor | green | “without any authority whatsoever” | 3 |
| 2 | Donohue v. Paterson | green | “emphasizing the state's fiscal difficulties.” | 3 |
| 3 | Donohue v. Paterson | green | “not withstanding any other provisions of this section or of any other law, including article fourteen of this chapter, or collective bargaining agreement or other analogous contract or binding arbitration award.” | 3 |
| 4 | Phillips v. Town of Brookhaven | green | “it cannot be determined on the instant record that the individual defendants were acting exclusively in a legislative capacity, which is required for immunity to attach” | 3 |
| 5 | Donohue v. Mangano | green | “the relevant inquiry for the court is to ensure that states neither 'consider impairing the obligations of their own contracts on a par with other policy alternatives' nor 'impose a drastic impairment when an evident and more moderate course would serve its purposes equally well…” | 3 |
| 6 | Morningside Supermarket Corp. v. New York State Department of Health | green | “essentially unanimous position of the new york district courts” | 2 |
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.