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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 26 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 Local Loan Co. v. Hunt.

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1 Local Loan Co. v. Hunt Anchor
scotus · 1934
green “relieve the honest debtor from the weight of oppressive indebtedness and permit him to start afresh.” 22
2 Goldburg Co. v. Salyer
va · 1948
green “neither reduce nor enlarge the exemptions or read into the law an exemption not found there.” 4

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