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 Societe Nat. Ind. Aero. v. US Dist. Court.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Societe Nat. Ind. Aero. v. US Dist. Court Anchor | green | “comity refers to the spirit of cooperation in which a domestic tribunal approaches the resolution of cases touching the laws and interests of other sovereign states.” | 10 |
| 2 | Edwards v. Aguillard | green | “the plain meaning of the statute's words, enlightened by their context and the contemporaneous legislative history, can control the determination of legislative purpose.” | 6 |
| 3 | North Star Steel Co. v. Thomas | green | “ften federal statutes fail to provide any limitations period for the causes of action they create, leaving courts to borrow a period . . . to limit these claims.” | 4 |
| 4 | Bates v. United States | green | “where congress includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another section of the same act, it is generally presumed that congress acts intentionally and purposefully in the disparate inclusion or exclusion.” | 4 |
| 5 | Hanoch Tel-Oren, in His Capacity as Father, on Behalf of the Deceased, Imry Tel-Oren v. Libyan Arab Republic Hanoch Tel-Oren v. Libyan Arab Republic | green | “international law, unlike municipal law (at least in the united states), is not widely regarded as a tool of first or frequent resort and as the last word in the legitimate resolution of conflicts.” | 4 |
| 6 | In Re Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos Human Rights Litigation. Agapita Trajano Archimedes Trajano v. Ferdinand E. Marcos, and Imee Marcos-Manotoc | green | “the debates that led to the act's passage contain no reference to the alien tort statute, and there is no direct evidence of what the first congress intended it to accomplish.” | 4 |
| 7 | Erlinda Gerardo Zara v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General | green | “the policy underlying the exhaustion requirement is to give an administrative agency the opportunity to resolve a controversy or correct its own errors before judicial intervention.” | 4 |
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.