when it gets to much more than a paragraph of verbatim text, or 95% identical paragraph or more

i think that should be obvious, it's not just one statement, it's a line of reasoning that is being repeated without reparsing and taking credit for it in the header of the document 

 Thank you for the clarification, that makes sense.

It's crazy how much direct copying there is at high levels of academia. You'd think they'd be paid enough to at least mix the words and add a source. 

 just like government attracts toxic motherfucker sons of bitches so does fiat academia