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particularity requirement

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 379 U.S. 476 - Stanford v. Texas · 1965Most cited · 1,807 citing opinions

First Amendment materials

[T]he constitutional requirement that warrants must particularly describe the 'things to be seized' is to be accorded the most scrupulous exactitude when the 'things' are books, and the basis for their seizure is the ideas which they contain.

How often courts cite the case defining “particularity requirement”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “particularity requirement” — 1,807 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case 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.