7 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 39 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. Kwai Fun Wong.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States v. Kwai Fun Wong Anchor | green | “congress must do something special, beyond setting an exception-free deadline, to tag a statute of limitations as jurisdictional and so prohibit a court from tolling it.” | 12 |
| 2 | United States v. Kwai Fun Wong | green | “traditional tools of statutory construction must plainly show that congress imbued a procedural bar with jurisdictional consequences.” | 11 |
| 3 | Boechler v. Commissioner | green | “equitable tolling is a traditional feature of american jurisprudence and a background principle against which congress drafts limitations periods.” | 4 |
| 4 | Matuszak v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | green | “expressly conditions the tax court's jurisdiction on the timely filing of a petition,” | 3 |
| 5 | Boechler v. Commissioner | green | “cannot be waived or forfeited, must be raised by courts sua sponte, and . . . do not allow for equitable exceptions.” | 3 |
| 6 | MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC | green | “congress's separation of a filing deadline from a jurisdictional grant indicates that the time bar is not jurisdictional.” | 3 |
| 7 | Wilkins v. United States | green | “a handful of lower court opinions cannot stand in for a ruling of the supreme court, especially where some of those decisions contain only fleeting references to jurisdiction.” | 3 |
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.