4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 16 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 Hells Canyon Preservation Council v. United States Forest Service.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hells Canyon Preservation Council v. United States Forest Service Anchor | green | “so clearly set forth that it could traditionally have been enforced through a writ of mandamus.” | 7 |
| 2 | Hells Canyon Preservation Council v. United States Forest Service | green | “could traditionally have been enforced through a writ of mandamus.” | 3 |
| 3 | Our Children's Earth Foundation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency | green | “for us to divine a 'specific, unequivocal command,' from an amalgamation of disputed statutory provisions and legislative history coupled with the agency's own earlier interpretation.” | 3 |
| 4 | Wildearth Guardians v. Gina McCarthy | green | “we must be able to identify a 'specific, unequivocal command' from the text of the statute at issue using traditional tools of statutory interpretation; it's not enough that such a command could be teased out 'from an amalgamation of disputed statutory provisions and legislative…” | 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.