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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 12 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 Brown v. Trench.

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1 Brown v. Trench Anchor
ca3 · 1986
green “state law creates the property rights protected by the fourteenth amendment.” 4
2 Stumpp v. Stroudsburg Municipal Authority
pa · 1995
green “tenure in public employment, in the sense of having a claim to employment which precludes dismissal on a summary basis is, where it exists, a matter of legislative grace.” 4
3 Gagliardi v. Ambridge Borough
pa · 1960
green “a municipality is a creature of the state and possesses only such powers of government as are expressly granted to it and as are necessary to carry the same into effect.” 4

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