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7 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 43 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 Casso v. Brand.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Casso v. Brand Anchor | green | “to eliminate patently unmeritorious claims and untenable defenses.” | 13 |
| 2 | City of Corpus Christi v. City of Pleasanton | green | “declare the use of certain types of conduits and reservoirs to be unlawful when the legislature, by necessary implication, has declared them to be lawful.” | 5 |
| 3 | City of Corpus Christi v. City of Pleasanton | green | “in no biennium shall the rate of growth of appropriations from state tax revenues not dedicated by this constitution exceed the estimated rate of growth of the state's economy,” | 5 |
| 4 | County of Mitchell v. City National Bank | green | “a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment to a coordinate political department.” | 5 |
| 5 | County of Mitchell v. City National Bank | green | “in no biennium shall the rate of growth of appropriations from state tax revenues not dedicated by this constitution exceed the estimated rate of growth of the state's economy” | 5 |
| 6 | County of Mitchell v. City National Bank | green | “in the sense that all laws in conflict with these prohibitions are void, section 9 of article 8 and section 7 of article 11 are self-executing; but, in so far as anything is required to be done to carry them into effect, they are not so, because they prescribe no rules by which …” | 5 |
| 7 | Cobb v. Harrington | green | “but in pursuance of specific appropriations made by law” | 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.