8 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 57 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 Environmental Scientific Corp. v. Durfee.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Environmental Scientific Corp. v. Durfee Anchor | green | “further away from the mouth of the funnel that an administrative official is . . . the more deference should be owed to the fact finder.” | 16 |
| 2 | Environmental Scientific Corp. v. Durfee | green | “sits as if at the mouth of the funnel” | 13 |
| 3 | Auto Body Ass'n of Rhode Island v. State, Department of Business Regulation | green | “in essence, if competent evidence exists in the record, the superior court is required to uphold the agency's conclusions.” | 6 |
| 4 | Auto Body Ass'n of Rhode Island v. State, Department of Business Regulation | green | “some or any evidence supporting the agency's findings.” | 6 |
| 5 | Auto Body Ass'n of Rhode Island v. State, Department of Business Regulation | green | “whose administration and enforcement have been entrusted to the agency even when the agency's interpretation is not the only permissible interpretation that could be applied.” | 5 |
| 6 | Arnold v. Rhode Island Department of Labor | green | “give deference to an agency's interpretation of an ambiguous statute or rule that it has been charged with administering and enforcing, provided that the agency's construction is neither clearly erroneous nor unauthorized.” | 4 |
| 7 | Arnold v. Rhode Island Department of Labor | green | “that it has been charged with administering and enforcing, provided that the agency's construction is neither clearly erroneous nor unauthorized.” | 4 |
| 8 | Rossi v. Employees' Retirement System | green | “although factual findings of an administrative agency are afforded great deference, a dispute involving statutory interpretation or, by analogy, an agency rule adopted pursuant to an enabling statute is a question of law to which the courts apply de novo review.” | 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.