6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 79 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 Yarborough v. Commonwealth.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yarborough v. Commonwealth Anchor | green | “absent clear evidence to the contrary in the record, the judgment of a trial court comes to us on appeal with a presumption that the law was correctly applied to the facts.” | 42 |
| 2 | Yarborough v. Commonwealth | green | “we will not 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.” | 16 |
| 3 | Kirk T. Milam v. Sheila J. Milam | green | “the trial court is presumed to know and correctly apply the law 'absent clear evidence to the contrary in the record.” | 7 |
| 4 | Oliver v. Commonwealth | green | “the trial court's judgment is presumed to be correct.” | 6 |
| 5 | Hodges v. COM., DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES | green | “on appeal, a ruling is entitled to a presumption of correctness; a trial court is presumed to have known and properly applied the law, absent clear evidence to the contrary.” | 4 |
| 6 | Early v. Commonwealth | green | “nothing is better settled than that everything is to be presumed in favor of the correctness of the rulings of a court of competent jurisdiction, when brought under review in an appellate tribunal, until the contrary is shown.” | 4 |
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