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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 6 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 Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Illinois Commerce Commission.

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1 Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Illinois Commerce Commission Anchor
illappct · 2009
green “a statute is ambiguous if it may be reasonably read as expressing multiple meanings.” 3
2 People v. Fort
illappct · 2007
green “there are times when courts cannot determine the meaning of a statute by examining its plain language or when the statute is capable of being understood by reasonably well-informed persons in two or more different senses, thus creating statutory ambiguity.” 3

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