8 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 53 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 United States v. Paul Frederick Laney.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States v. Paul Frederick Laney Anchor | green | “section 2259 is phrased in generous terms, in order to compensate the victims of sexual abuse for the care required to address the long term effects of their abuse.” | 10 |
| 2 | Porto Rico Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Mor | green | “said district court shall have jurisdiction of all controversies where all of the parties on either side of the controversy are citizens or subjects of a foreign state or states, or citizens of a state, territory, or district of the united states not domiciled in porto rico . . …” | 7 |
| 3 | Docket No. 05-2619-Op(l) | green | “where the purported victim's direct appeal was filed at the same time as the cvra mandamus petition and raises the identical issues, there is no additional right of appeal.” | 6 |
| 4 | United States v. Albert Burgess, Jr. | green | “nothing in the text or structure of the restitution statute affirmatively indicates that congress intended to negate the ordinary requirement of proximate causation for an award of compensatory damages.” | 6 |
| 5 | United States v. Albert Burgess, Jr. | green | “while full compensation would be unlikely from any individual defendant, the victim's proposed interpretation of the restitution statute places no cap on her ultimate recovery, and would allow her to recover the amount of her losses many times over.” | 6 |
| 6 | United States v. Albert Burgess, Jr. | green | “determines how those losses should be allocated in cases where more than one offender caused them” | 6 |
| 7 | In Re Acker | green | “where the purported victim's direct appeal was filed at the same time as the cvra mandamus petition and raises the identical issues, there is no additional right of appeal.” | 6 |
| 8 | United States v. Webber | green | “forfeiture and restitution are distinct remedies. restitution is remedial in nature, and its goal is to restore the victim's loss. forfeiture, in contrast, is punitive; it seeks to disgorge any profits that the offender realized from his illegal activity.” | 6 |
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.