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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 19 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 Board of Education v. Assessor of Worcester.

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1 Board of Education v. Assessor of Worcester Anchor
mass · 1975
green “a statute must be interpreted according to the intent of the legislature ascertained from all its words construed by the ordinary and approved usage of the language, considered in connection with the cause of its enactment, the mischief or imperfection to be remedied and the mai…” 10
2 Industrial Finance Corp. v. State Tax Commission
mass · 1975
green “the statutory language itself is the principal source of insight into the legislative purpose.” 5
3 Board of Education v. Assessor of Worcester
mass · 1975
green “according to the intent of the legislature ascertained from all its words construed by the ordinary and approved usage of the language, considered in connection with the cause of its enactment, the mischief or imperfection to be remedied and the main object to be accomplished, t…” 4

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