7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 36 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 Dobbert v. Florida.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dobbert v. Florida Anchor | green | “it is axiomatic that for a law to be ex post facto it must be more onerous than the prior law.” | 11 |
| 2 | District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne | green | “federal courts may upset a state's postconviction relief procedures only if they are fundamentally inadequate to vindicate the substantive rights provided.” | 10 |
| 3 | Flowers v. Mississippi | green | “by taking steps to eradicate racial discrimination from the jury selection process, batson sought to protect the rights of defendants and jurors, and to enhance public confidence in the fairness of the criminal justice system.” | 4 |
| 4 | Calder v. Bull | green | “1st. every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action.” | 3 |
| 5 | State v. . Barber | green | “it is among the accepted rules of statutory construction that the courts are inclined against an interpretation that will render a law of doubtful validity.” | 3 |
| 6 | State v. . Pool | green | “whenever an act of the legislature can be so construed and applied, as to avoid conflict with the constitution, and give it the force of law, such -42- state v. ramseur newby, j., dissenting construction will be adopted by the courts.” | 3 |
| 7 | California v. Ramos | green | “the qualitative difference of death from all other punishments requires a correspondingly greater degree of scrutiny of the capital sentencing determination” | 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.