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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 20 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 Jenco, Douglas J. v. Islam Repub Iran.

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1 Jenco, Douglas J. v. Islam Repub Iran Anchor
cadc · 2003
green “foreign states generally enjoy immunity from suit in u.s. courts.” 8
2 Blais v. Islamic Republic of Iran
dcd · 2006
green “the military arm of a kind of shadow government answering directly to the ayatollah and the mullahs who hold power in iran.” 5
3 Flatow v. Islamic Republic of Iran
dcd · 1999
green “a plaintiff need not establish that the material support or resources provided by a foreign state for a terrorist act contributed directly to the act from which the claim arises” 4
4 Anderson v. the Islamic Republic of Iran
dcd · 2010
green “represent merely a court's probabilistic determination as to what happened,” 3

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