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6 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 125 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 Bronston v. United States.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bronston v. United States Anchor | green | “precise questioning is imperative as a predicate for the offense of perjury.” | 43 |
| 2 | Bronston v. United States | green | “the burden is on the questioner to pin the witness down to the specific object of the questioner's inquiry.” | 28 |
| 3 | Bronston v. United States | green | “literally true but not responsive to the question asked and arguably misleading by negative implication.” | 21 |
| 4 | United States v. Fred J. Lighte | green | “a question is fundamentally ambiguous when it 'is not a phrase with a meaning about which men of ordinary intellect could agree, nor one which could be used with mutual understanding by a questioner and answerer unless it were defined at the time it were sought and offered as te…” | 21 |
| 5 | United States v. George W. Brumley, Sr., Robert W. Harrison, and William T. Thomas | green | “especially in perjury cases, defendants may not be assumed into the penitentiary.” | 7 |
| 6 | United States v. Demond Jamal Camper | green | “bronston's rule is limited to cases in which the statement is indisputably true, though misleading because it was unresponsive to the question asked.” | 5 |
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.