8 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 63 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 Green v. Bock Laundry MacHine Co..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green v. Bock Laundry MacHine Co. Anchor | green | “a party contending that legislative action changed settled law has the burden of showing that the legislature intended such a change.” | 19 |
| 2 | United States v. Adalberto Cervantes-Pacheco, Jerry Wayne Nelson and William E. Nelson | green | “no practice is more ingrained in our criminal justice system than the practice of the government calling a witness who is an accessory to the crime for which the defendant is charged and having that witness testify under a plea bargain that promises him a reduced sentence.” | 17 |
| 3 | Nardone v. United States | green | “the rule of exclusion of the sovereign is less stringently applied where the operation of the law is upon the agents or servants of the government rather than on the sovereign itself.” | 8 |
| 4 | Nardone v. United States | green | “the first is where an act, if not so limited, would deprive the sovereign of a recognized or established prerogative title or interest.” | 5 |
| 5 | Rafic Saadeh v. Fawaz Farouki | green | “if the language is plain on its face, courts do not ordinarily resort to legislative history.” | 5 |
| 6 | United States v. Milford Burkley, (Two Cases) | green | “state of mind which readily responds to the opportunity furnished by the officer or his agent to commit the forbidden act,” | 3 |
| 7 | United States v. Shannon O. Pinnick A/K/A Scott A. Bishop | green | “extraneous offenses qualify as part of the same course of conduct if 'they are sufficiently connected or related to each other as to warrant the conclusion that they are part of a single episode, spree, or ongoing series of offenses.” | 3 |
| 8 | United States v. Shannon O. Pinnick A/K/A Scott A. Bishop | green | “solely with respect to offenses ... that were part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan as the offense of conviction” | 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.