11 canonical passages across 10 cases, quoted by 240 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 Adams Housing, LLC v. City of Salisbury, Maryland.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adams Housing, LLC v. City of Salisbury, Maryland Anchor | green | “the court must give notice to ensure that the party is aware that it must 'come forward with all of evidence.” | 50 |
| 2 | Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital | green | “rivate activity will generally not be deemed state action unless the state has so dominated such activity as to convert it to state action: mere approval of or acquiescence in the initiatives of a private party is insufficient.” | 49 |
| 3 | Weller v. Department Of Social Services For The City Of Baltimore | green | “the 'special judicial solicitude' with which a district court should view such pro se complaints does not transform the court into an advocate. only those questions which are squarely presented to a court may properly be addressed.” | 40 |
| 4 | Iraq Middle Market Development Foundation v. Harmoosh | green | “a court can grant summary judgment only if, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, the case presents no genuine issues of material fact and the moving party demonstrates entitlement to judgment as a matter of law.” | 27 |
| 5 | Richard S. Johnson v. Moises Quinones, M.D. Joseph Morris, O.D. | green | “ny negligence or malpractice on the part of . . . doctors in missing diagnosis does not, by itself, support an inference of deliberate indifference.” | 17 |
| 6 | James Brown, Administrator of the Estate of Robert Brown v. G. W. Harris Nancy Svec J. O. Ogden, and N. E. Bishop A. E. Smith R. G. Fields | green | “he state does not acquire the power to punish with which the eighth amendment is concerned until after it has secured a formal adjudication of guilt in accordance with due process of law.” | 15 |
| 7 | Paul Thompson, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia | green | “general constitutional rule . . . may apply with obvious clarity . . . even though the very action in question has not previously been held unlawful.” | 8 |
| 8 | Arlean Brown v. Brian Elliot | green | “hen resolving the issue of qualified immunity at summary judgment, a court must ascertain the circumstances of the case by crediting the plaintiff's evidence and drawing all reasonable inferences in the plaintiff's favor.” | 4 |
| 9 | Harleysville Mutual Insurance v. State | green | “an opinion of an appellate court is not final until the remittitur is filed in the lower court” | 3 |
| 10 | Re Exhaustion of State Remedies in Criminal & Postconviction Relief Cases | green | “hen the claim has been presented to the court of appeals or the supreme court, and relief has been denied, the litigant shall be deemed to have exhausted all available state remedies.” | 2 |
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.