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8 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 38 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 Justin Godfrey Fahringer v. Commonwealth of Virginia.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justin Godfrey Fahringer v. Commonwealth of Virginia Anchor | green | “if the principles set forth in a proposed instruction are fully and fairly covered in other instructions that have been granted, a trial court does not abuse its discretion in refusing to grant a repetitious instruction.” | 9 |
| 2 | Clay v. Commonwealth | green | “under the harmless error doctrine, if there was 'a fair trial on the merits and substantial justice has been reached, no judgment shall be arrested or reversed . . . for any . . . defect, imperfection, or omission in the record, or for any error committed on the trial.” | 8 |
| 3 | Thomas Robert Lienau v. Commonwealth of Virginia | green | “the error did not influence the jury, or had but slight effect, the verdict and the judgment should stand.” | 6 |
| 4 | State v. Poulor | green | “the admission of the recording did not violate the confrontation clause of the sixth amendment, because marquis had the opportunity to, and did, cross-examine j.d. at trial.” | 3 |
| 5 | Shoemaker v. Funkhouser | green | “appears to resolve this case on the basis of a black's law dictionary definition of disposition that was not argued before the circuit court or this court, and to reverse the circuit court based upon an argument that the circuit court did not have the opportunity to consider” | 3 |
| 6 | State v. R. Tome | green | “the jury heard from the victim's own lips how tome had abused her, they saw her gestures, they observed her demeanor, and the video was a powerful presentation of the state's complaining witness-a witness who was out-of-reach and unavailable for cross-examination,” | 3 |
| 7 | State v. R. Tome | green | “draw 25 relying on the montana supreme court's decision in state v. tome, 495 p.3d 54 (mont. 2021), the dissent asserts that admitting the forensic interview video was not harmless as to the sodomy charge because "the specific evidence of anal penetration” | 3 |
| 8 | Solomon v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | green | “there is no necessity to apply a procedural default rule where the character of the objection is perfectly patent.” | 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.