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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

a general and apparently unlimited search, ransacking the desk, safe, filing cases and other parts of the office. It was a lawless invasion of the premises and a general exploratory search in the hope that evidence of crime might be found

How often courts cite the case defining “general exploratory search”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “general exploratory search” — 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.