Topic: a statute should be given a construction which renders ever… · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 5 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 Case v. Pinnick.

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1 Case v. Pinnick Anchor
okla · 1939
green “a statute should be given a construction which renders every word and sentence operative rather than one that renders some words or sentences idle and nugatory.” 3
2 Armstrong v. Sewer Improvement Dist. No. 1
· 1948
green “the courts may not search for its meaning beyond the statute itself, but will give it the meaning intended by the legislature.” 2

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