6 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 60 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 Commonwealth v. May.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Commonwealth v. May Anchor | green | “failure to offer a timely and specific objection results in waiver of” | 17 |
| 2 | Tindall v. Friedman | green | “on appeal, we will not consider assignments of error that were not brought to the tribunal's attention at a time at which the error could have been corrected or the alleged prejudice could have been mitigated.” | 12 |
| 3 | Commonwealth v. Powell | green | “on appeal, we will not consider assignments of error that were not brought to the tribunal's attention at a time at which the error could have been corrected or the alleged prejudice could have been mitigated.” | 11 |
| 4 | Commonwealth v. May | green | “to the extent the claims would sound in trial court error, they are waived due to the absence of contemporaneous objections.” | 10 |
| 5 | Commonwealth v. Powell | green | “the absence of a contemporaneous objection below constitutes a waiver of the claim on appeal.” | 7 |
| 6 | Commonwealth v. Dougherty | green | “to the extent the claims would sound in trial court error, they are waived due to the absence of contemporaneous objections.” | 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.