Pat Lane Swanzy Jr. v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• restating and reaffirming “the settled principle of statutory construction that we must give effect, if possible, to every word of the statute”
• restating and reaffirming “the settled principle of statutory construction that we must give effect, if possible, to every word of the statute”
• restating and reaffirming “the settled principle of statutory construction that we must give effect, if possi ble, to every word of the statute”
• restating “the settled principle of statutory construction that we must give effect ... to every word of the statute”
• applying the “settled principle of statutory construction that we must give effect, if possible, to every word of the statute”
• a general principle of statutory construction requires that, to extent possible, every word of statute should be given effect

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).