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12 canonical passages across 9 cases, quoted by 2,444 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 Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner Anchor | red | “the fitness of the issues for judicial decision and the hardship to the parties of withholding court consideration.” | 755 |
| 2 | Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner | red | “to prevent the courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements over administrative policies, and also to protect the agencies from judicial interference until an administrative decision has been formalized and its effects…” | 728 |
| 3 | Texas v. United States | green | “a claim is not ripe for adjudication if it rests upon contingent future events that may not occur as anticipated, or indeed may not occur at all.” | 637 |
| 4 | Reno v. Catholic Social Services, Inc. | green | “is drawn both from article iii limitations on judicial power and from prudential reasons for refusing to exercise jurisdiction.” | 105 |
| 5 | Ohio Forestry Assn., Inc. v. Sierra Club | green | “benefit from further factual development of the issues presented.” | 79 |
| 6 | Ohio Forestry Assn., Inc. v. Sierra Club | green | “a person with standing who is injured by a failure to comply with the nepa procedure may complain of that failure at the time the failure takes place, for the claim can never get riper.” | 43 |
| 7 | Ohio Forestry Assn., Inc. v. Sierra Club | green | “will have ample opportunity later to bring its legal challenge at a time when harm is more imminent and more certain.” | 26 |
| 8 | Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 92,071 Ann Brown v. Ferro Corp. | green | “the ripeness doctrine not only depends on the finding of a case and controversy and hence jurisdiction under article iii, but it also requires that the court exercise its discretion to determine if judicial resolution would be desirable under all of the circumstances.” | 21 |
| 9 | Kentucky Press Ass'n v. Kentucky | green | “ripeness is a justiciability doctrine designed 'to prevent the courts, through premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements.” | 17 |
| 10 | Inland Empire Public Lands Council v. United States Forest Service | green | “nepa exists to ensure a process, not to ensure any result.” | 14 |
| 11 | Cantrell v. City of Long Beach | green | “once a plaintiff has established an injury in fact under nepa, the causation and redressability requirements are relaxed.” | 13 |
| 12 | National Park Hospitality Association v. Department of the Interior | green | “the hardship of withholding court consideration.” | 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.