Fourth Amendment protection
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 333 U.S. 10 - Johnson v. United States · 1948Most cited · 7,793 citing opinions
The point of the Fourth Amendment... is not that it denies law enforcement the support of the usual inferences which reasonable men draw from evidence. Its protection consists in requiring that those inferences be drawn by a neutral and detached magistrate instead of being judged by the officer engaged in the often competitive enterprise of ferreting out crime.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Fourth Amendment protection”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Fourth Amendment protection” — 12,221 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1948–1966
What the Fourth Amendment protects is the security a man relies upon when he places himself or his property within a constitutionally protected area, be it his home or his office, his hotel room or his automobile. There he is protected from unwarranted governmental intrusion.