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reasonable or probable cause

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 391 U.S. 216 - Dyke v. Taylor Implement Manufacturing Co. · 1968Most cited · 885 citing opinions

warrantless automobile search

the officers conducting the search have 'reasonable or probable cause' to believe that they will find the instrumentality of a crime or evidence pertaining to a crime before they begin their warrantless search

How often courts cite the case defining “reasonable or probable cause”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “reasonable or probable cause” — 885 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.