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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 8 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 Ferranti v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms.

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1 Ferranti v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Anchor
dcd · 2001
green “in assessing the reasonableness of a search, a court is not guided by whether the search actually uncovered every document or whether the search was exhaustive.” 5
2 Gutman v. U.S. Department of Justice
dcd · 2003
green “by providing the requester with a vaughn index, adequately describing each withheld document and explaining the exemption's relevance.” 3

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