7 canonical passages across 7 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 Manning v. Caldwell for City of Roanoke.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manning v. Caldwell for City of Roanoke Anchor | green | “lower courts grappling with complex legal questions of first impression must give due weight to guidance from the supreme court, so as to ensure the consistent and uniform development and application of the law.” | 6 |
| 2 | Nunn v. State | green | “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed . . . and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree . . . .” | 6 |
| 3 | Klenosky v. New York City Police Department | green | “consistent with this nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation” | 6 |
| 4 | State v. Reid | green | “nothing in the second amendment's text draws a home/public distinction with respect to the right to keep and bear arms.” | 6 |
| 5 | Caetano v. Massachusetts | green | “extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms,” | 6 |
| 6 | David Firewalker-Fields v. Jack Lee | green | “to allow the district court to grapple with the history-and-tradition test in the first instance” | 6 |
| 7 | Bryan Range v. Attorney General United States | green | “that there is no need for felony-by-felony litigation regarding the constitutionality of 922(g)(1)” | 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.