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6 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 25 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 Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Ass'n v. Jorling.

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1 Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Ass'n v. Jorling Anchor
ny · 1995
green “new language cannot be imported into a statute to give it a meaning not otherwise found therein” 10
2 Raritan Development Corp. v. Silva
ny · 1997
green “is contrary to the plain meaning of the statutory language” 3
3 Lantry v. State
ny · 2005
green “labor law 220 implements the constitutional mandate that contractors engaged in public projects pay their workers wages and supplements which 'shall not be less than the prevailing rate for a day's work in the same trade or occupation in the locality within the state where such…” 3
4 Albano v. Kirby
ny · 1975
green “the legislature uses unlike terms in different parts of a statute it is reasonable to infer that a dissimilar meaning is intended” 3
5 Nash v. New York State Department of Labor
nyappdiv · 2006
green “the classification of work . . . actually performed” 3
6 Chanos v. Madac, LLC
nyappdiv · 2010
green “a glazier apprentice . . . who performs work classified as ironworker's work must be paid an ironworker's journeyman prevailing rate” 3

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