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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 16 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 Steven J. Albrechtsen v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, Cross-Appellee, and H. Gaylon Greenhill.

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1 Steven J. Albrechtsen v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, Cross-Appellee, and H. Gaylon Greenhill Anchor
ca7 · 2002
green “courts are entitled to assistance from counsel, and an invitation to search without guidance is no more useful than a litigant's request to a district court at the summary judgment stage to paw through the assembled discovery material.” 11
2 United States v. 5443 Suffield Terrace, Skokie, Ill.
ca7 · 2010
green “it was not the district court's job to sift through the record and make connor's case for him.” 5

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