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reasonableness

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 282 U.S. 344 - Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States · 1931Most cited · 1,559 citing opinions

Fourth Amendment

There is no formula for the determination of reasonableness. Each case is to be decided on its own facts and circumstances

How often courts cite the case defining “reasonableness”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “reasonableness” — 1,555 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.