5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 55 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 Price, Warden v. Vincent.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Price, Warden v. Vincent Anchor | green | “confronts a set of facts that are materially indistinguishable from a decision of the supreme court and nevertheless arrives at a result different from that precedent.” | 12 |
| 2 | Byrd v. Workman | green | “contrary to or involved the unreasonable application of that clearly established federal law.” | 12 |
| 3 | Littlejohn v. Trammell | green | “adjudicated on the merits' means a decision finally resolving the parties' claims, with res judicata effect, that is based on the substance of the claim advanced, rather than on a procedural, or other ground.” | 11 |
| 4 | Paine v. Massie | green | “even if a state court resolves a claim in a summary fashion with little or no reasoning, federal courts owe deference to the state court's result.” | 10 |
| 5 | Black v. Workman | green | “under aedpa, a federal court in a 2254 proceeding must be exquisitely deferential to the state court's resolution of the petitioner's claims.” | 10 |
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.