4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 12 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 Otay Mesa Property, L.P. v. United States Department of the Interior.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Otay Mesa Property, L.P. v. United States Department of the Interior Anchor | green | “substantial evidence is a deferential standard. but deference is not abdication.” | 3 |
| 2 | Cape Hatteras Access Preservation Alliance v. U.S. Department of the Interior | green | “while the court's review on summary judgment must be 'searching and careful, the ultimate standard of review is a narrow one' and the court 'is not empowered to substitute its judgment for that of the agency.” | 3 |
| 3 | Van Hollen v. Federal Election Commission | green | “an implicit delegation from congress to the agency to fill in the statutory gaps,” | 3 |
| 4 | Otsuka Pharm. Co. v. Burwell | green | “in some abstract sense, ambiguous, but rather whether, read in context and using the traditional tools of statutory construction,' the terms unambiguously mean what the party claiming victory at step one says they mean.” | 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.