5 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 70 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 Young v. City Of St. Charles.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Young v. City Of St. Charles Anchor | green | “which are fatally flawed in their legal premises and designed to fail, thereby sparing litigants the burden of unnecessary pretrial and trial activity.” | 30 |
| 2 | Cole v. Homier Distributing Co., Inc. | green | “mere possibility of misconduct,” | 26 |
| 3 | Sarah Watkins v. City of St. Louis, Missouri | green | “qualified immunity shields public officials from liability for civil damages if their conduct did not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” | 5 |
| 4 | Sarah Watkins v. City of St. Louis, Missouri | green | “to overcome qualified immunity at the motion to dismiss stage, a plaintiff must plead facts showing (1) that the official violated a statutory or constitutional right, and (2) that the right was clearly established at the time of the challenged conduct.” | 5 |
| 5 | Riley v. St. Louis County | green | “when reviewing a rule 12(b)(6) dismissal for failure to state a claim, we look only to the facts alleged in the complaint and construe those facts in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.” | 4 |
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.