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2 canonical passages across 2 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 Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman.

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1 Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman Anchor
scotus · 1981
green “legislation enacted pursuant to the spending power is much in the nature of a contract: in return for federal funds, the states agree to comply with federally imposed conditions.” 22
2 South Dakota v. Dole
scotus · 1987
green “congress may attach conditions on the receipt of federal funds, and has repeatedly employed the power 'to further broad policy objectives by conditioning receipt of federal moneys upon compliance by the recipient with federal statutory and administrative directives.” 8

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