Shapiro v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis

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4 district ·

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The burden will first rest with the agency to justify its. actions when singling out a responsive record from a greater .compilation of documents. If satisfactory, the agency’s explanation will merit a presumption of good faith. The requester, however, remains free to challenge the agency!s explanation by offering evi.dence of positive indicia that the responsive material was inappropriately withheld or of bad faith on the part of the agency. The agency will then have an opportunity to respond to the requester’s allegations, and the Court will re.view their arguments on-the merits.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 272 F. Supp. 3d 115 - Shapiro v. Central Intelligence Agency

2. “could expose potential leads and/or suspects the FBI identified in relation to an on-going domestic terrorism investigation and releasing the concealed information ... could harm the on-going investigation by impeding the FBI's efforts to locate the fugitive”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 298 F. Supp. 3d 124 - Cable News Network, Inc. v. Fed. Bureau of Investigation

3. “[t]he FBI has offered sufficient explanations.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 298 F. Supp. 3d 124 - Cable News Network, Inc. v. Fed. Bureau of Investigation