9 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 92 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 Ex Rel. Westrick v. Second Chance Body Armor, Inc..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Ex Rel. Westrick v. Second Chance Body Armor, Inc. Anchor | green | “the burden is on the moving party to show that reconsideration is appropriate and that harm or injustice would result if reconsideration were denied.” | 25 |
| 2 | Singh v. George Washington University | green | “limited by the law of the case doctrine and subject to the caveat that where litigants have once battled for the court's decision, they should neither be required, nor without good reason permitted, to battle for it again.” | 19 |
| 3 | Lewis v. District of Columbia | green | “these considerations leave a great deal of room for the court's discretion and, accordingly, the 'as justice requires' standard amounts to determining 'whether relief upon reconsideration is necessary under the relevant circumstances.” | 15 |
| 4 | Lewis v. District of Columbia | green | “necessary under the relevant circumstances.” | 8 |
| 5 | University of Colorado Health at Memorial Hospital v. Burwell | green | “district courts have 'broad discretion to hear a motion for reconsideration brought under rule 54(b),” | 6 |
| 6 | United States Ex Rel. Westrick v. Second Chance Body Armor, Inc. | green | “patently misunderstood the parties, made a decision beyond the adversarial issues presented, made an error in failing to consider controlling decisions or data, or where a controlling or significant change in the law has occurred.” | 5 |
| 7 | Davis v. Joseph J. Magnolia, Inc. | green | “a motion for reconsideration is discretionary and should not be granted unless the movant presents either newly discovered evidence or errors of law or fact that need correction.” | 5 |
| 8 | Ali v. Carnegie Institution of Washington | green | “when a court has 'patently misunderstood the parties, made a decision beyond the adversarial issues presented, made an error in failing to consider controlling decisions or data, or where a controlling or significant change in the law has occurred.” | 5 |
| 9 | Lewis v. District of Columbia | green | “whether relief upon reconsideration is necessary under the relevant circumstances.” | 4 |
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.