4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 17 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 Liberation Newspaper v. U.S. Department of State.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liberation Newspaper v. U.S. Department of State Anchor | green | “where the search terms are reasonably calculated to lead to responsive documents, the court should not 'micro manage' the agency's search.” | 6 |
| 2 | Judicial Watch, Inc. v. United States Department of State | green | “whether the search was reasonably calculated to discover the requested documents, not whether it actually uncovered every document extant.” | 5 |
| 3 | Walston v. United States Department of Defense | green | “rely on supplemental declarations submitted with an agency's reply memorandum to cure deficiencies in previously submitted declarations” | 3 |
| 4 | Tushnet v. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement | green | “each agency, upon any request for records which (i) reasonably describes such records and (ii) is made in accordance with published rules ... shall make the records promptly available to any person.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.