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9 canonical passages across 8 cases, quoted by 427 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 State v. Wyatt.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State v. Wyatt Anchor | green | “a party must provide the trial court with an explanation of his or her objection that is specific enough to ensure that the court can identify its alleged error with enough clarity to permit it to consider and correct the error immediately, if correction is warranted.” | 223 |
| 2 | Peeples v. Lampert | green | “preservation gives a trial court the chance to consider and rule on a contention, thereby possibly avoiding an error altogether or correcting one already made, which in turn may obviate the need for an appeal.” | 71 |
| 3 | State v. Parkins | green | “ultimately, the preservation rule is a practical one, and close calls inevitably will turn on whether, given the particular record of a case, the court concludes that the policies underlying the rule have been sufficiently served.” | 35 |
| 4 | Davis v. O'BRIEN | green | “parties are not taken by surprise, misled, or denied opportunities to meet an argument.” | 32 |
| 5 | Peeples v. Lampert | green | “what is required of a party to adequately present a contention to the trial court can vary depending on the nature of the claim or argument; the touchstone in that regard, ultimately, is procedural fairness to the parties and to the trial court.” | 28 |
| 6 | State v. Walker | green | “particularly in criminal cases, in which there is a premium on considerations of cost and speed, the realities of trial practice may be such that fairly abbreviated short-hand references suffice to put all on notice about the nature of a party's arguments.” | 20 |
| 7 | State v. Taylor | green | “the appealing party's statements before the trial court must have alerted the trial judge and opposing counsel to the substance of the position that is advanced on appeal.” | 9 |
| 8 | State v. Powell | green | “procedurally unfair because the court did not have the benefit of hearing from both sides so that it might correct any error, thereby obviating the need for an appeal on that issue.” | 6 |
| 9 | State v. Parnell | green | “exactly what suffices to preserve a particular argument 'is not something that can be explained by a neat verbal formula.” | 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.