No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Bill of Rights
Third Amendment
Amendment III · Ratified December 15, 1791
In brief
Bars the government from quartering soldiers in private homes without the owner’s consent.
Amendment III · Ratified December 15, 1791 · Part of the Bill of Rights
How often courts cite this over time
Court decisions citing this, by year.The marker is when it took effect. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Landmark decisions
2 total- Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952), also commonly referred to as the Steel Seizure Case or the Youngstown Steel case, was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision that limited the power of the president of the United States to seize private property. The case served as a check on the most far-reaching claims of executive power at the time and signaled the Court's increased willingness to intervene in political questions.
- Griswold v. Connecticut · 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects the liberty of married couples to use contraceptives without government restriction. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception".