4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 34 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 Jerry Paul Henderson v. Donal Campbell, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections, Attorney General for the State of Alabama.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jerry Paul Henderson v. Donal Campbell, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections, Attorney General for the State of Alabama Anchor | green | “a state prisoner seeking federal habeas relief cannot raise a federal constitutional claim in federal court unless he first properly raised the issue in the state courts.” | 16 |
| 2 | Snowden v. Singletary | green | “exhaustion of state remedies requires that the state prisoner 'fairly presen federal claims to the state courts in order to give the state the opportunity to pass upon and correct alleged violations of its prisoners' federal rights.” | 7 |
| 3 | National Federation of Federal Employees, Local 1309 v. Department of the Interior | green | “it is the objective reasonableness, not the correctness per se, of the state court decision that we are to decide.” | 5 |
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.