Fourth Amendment — overriding function
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 384 U.S. 757 - Schmerber v. State of California · 1966Most cited · 10,464 citing opinions
The overriding function of the Fourth Amendment is to protect personal privacy and dignity against unwarranted intrusion by the State
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Fourth Amendment — overriding function” — 10,437 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.