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7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 286 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 Mickens v. Taylor.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mickens v. Taylor Anchor | green | “not for its own sake, but because of the effect it has on the ability of the accused to receive a fair trial.” | 44 |
| 2 | United States v. Solon | green | “as we have done in the past, we rest our conclusion of structural error upon the difficulty of assessing the effect of the error.” | 42 |
| 3 | Duckett v. Mullin | green | “the integrity of the proceeding was so infected that the entire trial was unfair.” | 40 |
| 4 | United States v. Paul Levy, Frank Moten, Donald Verna, Nicholas Visceglia. Appeal of Donald Verna | green | “make the adversary process itself presumptively unreliable.” | 40 |
| 5 | United States v. Willie Decoster, Jr., (Decoster Iii) | green | “prejudice in these circumstances is so likely that case-by-case inquiry into prejudice is not worth the cost.” | 40 |
| 6 | Shillinger v. Haworth | green | “a realistic possibility of injury to the defendant or benefit to 85 70 f.3d at 1142 (per se rule recognizes that intentional and groundless prosecutorial intrusions are never harmless because they "necessarily render a trial fundamentally unfair” | 40 |
| 7 | United States v. Kaid (Ahmed) | green | “reluctance to extend a rule of per se prejudice in any new direction” | 40 |
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.