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11 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 4,747 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 United States v. Olano.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States v. Olano Anchor | red | “seriously affects the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings.” | 2,396 |
| 2 | Johnson v. United States | green | “seriously affects the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.” | 782 |
| 3 | United States v. Olano | red | “affected the outcome of the district court proceedings.” | 694 |
| 4 | Johnson v. United States | green | “it is enough that an error be 'plain' at the time of appellate consideration.” | 260 |
| 5 | United States v. Atkinson | green | “seriously affects the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings.” | 221 |
| 6 | United States v. Olano | red | “plain' is synonymous with 'clear' or, equivalently, 'obvious.” | 168 |
| 7 | United States v. Dominguez Benitez | green | “a reasonable probability that, but for the error claimed, the result of the proceeding would have been different.” | 95 |
| 8 | United States v. Louis F. Pirani | green | “must show a 'reasonable probability,' based on the appellate record as a whole, that but for the error he would have received a more favorable sentence.” | 59 |
| 9 | United States v. Louis F. Pirani | green | “is insufficient, without more, to demonstrate a reasonable probability that the court would have imposed a lesser sentence absent the booker error.” | 50 |
| 10 | United States v. Whitt Neal | green | “this standard is satisfied when the settled law of the supreme court or this circuit establishes that an error has occurred.” | 12 |
| 11 | United States v. Melody A. McCully | green | “a fact in the psr not specifically objected to is admitted for purposes of booker” | 10 |
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.