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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 15 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 Group Life & Health Insurance v. Royal Drug Co..

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1 Group Life & Health Insurance v. Royal Drug Co. Anchor
scotus · 1979
green “the starting point in any case involving the meaning of a statute is the language of the statute itself.” 11
2 Mills Music, Inc. v. Snyder
scotus · 1985
green “in construing a federal statute, it is appropriate to assume that the ordinary meaning of the language that congress employed 'accurately expresses its legislative purpose.” 4

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