4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 30 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 Kenneth A. McCready v. Jesse White, Secretary of State of Illinois.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenneth A. McCready v. Jesse White, Secretary of State of Illinois Anchor | green | “ensuring the existence of subject-matter jurisdiction is the court's first duty in every lawsuit.” | 18 |
| 2 | Charles Curry v. Revolution Laboratories, LLC | green | “in a case involving federal question jurisdiction, 'a federal court has personal jurisdiction over the defendant if either federal law or the law of the state in which the court sits authorizes service of process to that defendant.” | 5 |
| 3 | E360 INSIGHT v. the Spamhaus Project | green | “default judgments rendered without personal jurisdiction are void . . . .” | 4 |
| 4 | Melton v. Tippecanoe County | green | “where the employee alleges that his employer kept inaccurate records, he 'has carried out his burden if he . . . produces sufficient evidence to show the amount and extent of that work as a matter of just and reasonable inference.” | 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.