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8 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 83 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 Lochner v. New York.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lochner v. New York Anchor | red | “general propositions do not decide concrete cases.” | 40 |
| 2 | United States v. Juan Jose Garcia | green | “in order for consent to a search to be deemed voluntary, it must be the product of an essentially free and unconstrained choice.” | 14 |
| 3 | United States v. Juan Jose Garcia | green | “one of the well-established exceptions to the probable cause and warrant requirements is a search which is conducted pursuant to voluntary consent.” | 8 |
| 4 | United States v. Juan Jose Garcia | green | “the product of an essentially free and unconstrained choice.” | 7 |
| 5 | United States v. Alfonso Hidalgo | green | “the government bears the burden of proving ... that the consent was not a function of acquiescence to a claim of lawful authority but rather was given freely and voluntarily.” | 5 |
| 6 | Robert N. Williams and Patricia M. Williams v. A.L. Bishop | green | “fewer than all the claims or parties” | 4 |
| 7 | United States v. Dylan Y. Rodney, A/K/A Dylan Y. Jackson | green | “frequently hide drugs near their genitals.” | 3 |
| 8 | United States v. Augustin Gonzalez | green | “the absence of official coercion is a sine qua non of effective consent” | 2 |
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.