5 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 40 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 Dailey v. Bechtel Corporation.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dailey v. Bechtel Corporation Anchor | green | “an appellate court should not overrule a previous decision recently rendered without evidence of changing conditions or serious judicial error in interpretation sufficient to compel deviation from the basic policy of the doctrine of stare decisis, which is to promote certainty, …” | 24 |
| 2 | State of West Virginia v. Marcus Patrele McKinley | green | “while memorandum decisions may be cited as legal authority, and are legal precedent, their value as precedent is necessarily more limited; where a conflict exists between a published opinion and a memorandum decision, the published opinion controls.” | 6 |
| 3 | Murphy v. Eastern American Energy Corp. | green | “this court is loathe to overturn a decision so recently rendered, it is preferable to do so where a prior decision was not a correct statement of law.” | 4 |
| 4 | Subcarrier Communications, Inc. v. Nield | green | “it is not the province of the courts to make or supervise legislation, and a statute may not, under the guise of interpretation, be modified, revised, amended, distorted, remodeled, or rewritten.” | 4 |
| 5 | Murphy v. Eastern American Energy Corp. | green | “although this court is loathe to overturn a decision so recently rendered, it is preferable to do so where a prior decision was not a correct statement of law.” | 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.