12 canonical passages across 8 cases, quoted by 123 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 Leary v. NAVY, Secretary.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leary v. NAVY, Secretary Anchor | green | “superimpose its own ideas of probability and likelihood (no matter how reasonable those ideas may be) upon the facts of the record.” | 25 |
| 2 | Leary v. NAVY, Secretary | green | “a party seeking summary judgment always bears the initial responsibility of informing the district court of the basis for its motion, and identifying those portions of the evidence ... which it believes demonstrate the absence of a genuine issue of material fact.” | 21 |
| 3 | Rodriguez v. Municipality of San Juan | green | “judges are not mind-readers, so parties must spell out their issues clearly, highlighting the relevant facts and analyzing on-point authority.” | 18 |
| 4 | Leary v. NAVY, Secretary | green | “in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.” | 14 |
| 5 | Rodriguez v. Municipality of San Juan | green | “it should go without saying that we deem waived claims not made or claims adverted to in a cursory fashion, unaccompanied by developed argument.” | 9 |
| 6 | Weston-Smith v. Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Inc. | green | “inherently ambiguous statements do not qualify as direct evidence.” | 7 |
| 7 | Mariani-Colón v. Department of Homeland Security | green | “permits the district court to treat the moving party's statement of facts as uncontested” | 7 |
| 8 | Baltodano v. Merck, Sharp & Dohme (I.A.) Corp. | green | “requires employers to compensate employees who are discharged without just cause.” | 6 |
| 9 | Mariani-Colón v. Department of Homeland Security | green | “if the party opposing summary judgment fails to comply with local rule 56(c), the rule permits the district court to treat the moving party's statement of facts as uncontested.” | 5 |
| 10 | CMI Capital Market Investment, LLC v. González-Toro | green | “relieves the district court of any responsibility to ferret through the record to discern whether any material fact is genuinely in dispute,” | 5 |
| 11 | Febres v. Challenger Caribbean Corp. | green | “comments which, fairly read, demonstrate that a decisionmaker made, or intended to make, employment decisions based on forbidden criteria.” | 3 |
| 12 | MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. Ohio Bell Telephone Co. | green | “under the provisions set forth in the act for judicial review, it is most inappropriate for a district court to review matters which have not been fully presented to the commissioners” | 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.