7 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 106 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. Jenkins.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State v. Jenkins Anchor | green | “the term discretion itself involves the idea of choice, of an exercise of the will, of a determination made between competing considerations.” | 32 |
| 2 | Spalding v. Spalding | green | “it evidences not the exercise of will but perversity of will, not the exercise of judgment but defiance thereof, not the exercise of reason but rather of passion or bias.” | 24 |
| 3 | State v. Weaver | green | “it evidences not the exercise of will but perversity of will, not the exercise of judgment but defiance thereof, not the exercise of reason but rather of passion or bias.” | 15 |
| 4 | Pons v. Ohio State Medical Board | green | “term discretion itself involves the idea of choice, of an exercise of the will, of a determination made between competing considerations.” | 12 |
| 5 | State v. Weaver | green | “profoundly and wholly violative of fact and reason” | 11 |
| 6 | Spalding v. Spalding | green | “so palpably and grossly violative of fact and logic that it evidences not the exercise of will but perversity of will, not the exercise of judgment but defiance thereof, not the exercise of reason but rather of passion or bias.” | 6 |
| 7 | State v. Weaver | green | “involves more than a difference of opinion.” | 6 |
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.