Topic: if the language is clear and unambiguous, we may not depart… · Go Syfert
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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 Dow Chemical Co. v. Department of Revenue.

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1 Dow Chemical Co. v. Department of Revenue Anchor
illappct · 1991
green “if the language is clear and unambiguous, we may not depart from the plain language and meaning of the statute by reading into it exceptions, limitations or conditions that the legislature did not express, nor by rendering any word or phrase superfluous or meaningless.” 3
2 Cuevas v. Berrios
illappct · 2017
green “if the language is clear and unambiguous, we may not depart from the plain language and meaning of the statute by reading into it exceptions, limitations or conditions that the legislature did not express, nor by rendering any word or phrase superfluous or meaningless.” 3

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