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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 9 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 Bullock v. Commonwealth.

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1 Bullock v. Commonwealth Anchor
vactapp · 2006
green “fix upon isolated statements of the trial judge taken out of the full context in which they were made, and use them as a predicate for holding the law has been misapplied.” 3
2 Parker v. Commonwealth
vactapp · 2003
green “trial court's remark is not, in and of itself, the full context simply because it represents the only point at which the court expressly addressed the issue in dispute.” 3
3 Campbell v. Commonwealth
vactapp · 2002
green “clear evidence to the contrary in the record,” 3

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