5 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 42 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 United States v. Campos.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States v. Campos Anchor | green | “a forfeiture is basically an oversight; a waiver is a deliberate decision not to present a ground for relief that might be available in the law.” | 14 |
| 2 | United States v. Brooks | green | “where an appellant has not preserved an objection to evidence by making a timely objection, that error will be forfeited in the absence of plain error.” | 10 |
| 3 | United States v. Campos | green | “we cannot review waived issues at all because a valid waiver leaves no error for us to correct on appeal.” | 8 |
| 4 | United States v. Gladue | green | “whereas forfeiture is the failure to make the timely assertion of a right, waiver is the intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right.” | 8 |
| 5 | United States v. Campos | green | “a valid waiver leaves no error for us to correct on appeal.” | 2 |
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.