5 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 65 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 Woodford v. Ngo.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woodford v. Ngo Anchor | red | “proper exhaustion demands compliance with an agency's deadlines and other critical procedural rules because no adjudicative system can function effectively without imposing some orderly structure on the course of its proceedings.” | 28 |
| 2 | Aaron B. Scruggs v. D. Bruce Jordan | green | “once the meager threshold has been crossed our inquiry ends.” | 14 |
| 3 | Michael Richmond v. Joseph Scibana, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution at Oxford, Wisconsin | green | “a common-law exhaustion rule applies to 2241 actions even though 1997e(a) does not.” | 12 |
| 4 | Aaron B. Scruggs v. D. Bruce Jordan | green | “once the meager threshold has been crossed our inquiry ends” | 8 |
| 5 | Michael Richmond v. Joseph Scibana, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution at Oxford, Wisconsin | green | “a common- law exhaustion rule applies to 2241 actions even though 1997e(a) does not.” | 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.